6 Ga. App. 864 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1909
Plaintiff in error was tried for the offense of murder, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He excepts to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial on the general grounds and on eight special assignments of error. An examination of the record, in our opinion, discloses only one reversible error. The evidence, considered as a whole and in connection with the defendant’s statement, makes the case somewhat close and doubtful. The theory of the defendant was that he was assaulted