Waller v. State
Cases that cite this one
25 later published cases cite this decision.
- Buchanan v. State (Ga. 1922)
- Todd v. State (Ga. 1946)
- Cotton v. State (Ga. 1946)
- Fann v. State (Ga. 1942)
- Fann v. State (Ga. 1942)
- Shafer v. State (Ga. 1941)
- Shafer v. State (Ga. 1941)
- Sheffield v. State (Ga. 1939)
- Brannon v. State (Ga. 1939)
- Maddox v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 1938)
- Stowe v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 1935)
- Hall v. State (Ga. 1933)
- Carter v. State (Ga. 1930)
- Head v. State (Ga. 1929)
- Holland v. State (Ga. 1928)
- Johnson v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 1927)
- Warren v. State (Ga. 1926)
- Ison v. State (Ga. 1923)
- Ison v. State (Ga. 1922)
- Harris v. State (Ga. 1921)
- Butt v. State (Ga. 1920)
- Hollis v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 1915)
- Harris v. State (Ga. 1937)
- Hall v. State (Ga. 1909)
- Findley v. State (Ga. 1906)
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Opinion of the Court
1. There being, on the trial of an indictment for murder, evidence which, if credible, would have warranted a finding that the -slayer and the deceased, upon a sudden quarrel, each being armed with -a deadly weapon, mutually engaged in a mortal combat, each using his weapon and intending to kill the other therewith, it was the duty of the judge, with or without a request, to give- in charge to the jury th-e law of voluntary manslaughter as related to the doctrine of “mutual com-bait”; and the omissi-on to do so is cause for a new’trial, where-the accused was -convicted of murder.
2. In such a -case merely reading 'to the jury the sections of the-code relating to manslaughter did not -sufficiently Instruct them as to the law applicable to the issues involved.
Judgment reversed.
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