Willis v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Willis v. State

10 S.E.2d 763, 63 Ga. App. 262, 1940 Ga. App. LEXIS 54

CourtCourt of Appeals of Georgia

DecidedSeptember 20, 1940

Docket28414

StatusPublished

Cited by8 cases

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Willis v. State, 10 S.E.2d 763, 63 Ga. App. 262, 1940 Ga. App. LEXIS 54 (Ga. Ct. App. 1940).

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Broyles, O. J.

1. “It is well settled by numerous rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court that the law of voluntary manslaughter may properly be given in charge to the jury on the trial of one indicted for murder, where, from the evidence or from the defendant’s statement to [263]*263the jury, there is anything deducible which would tend to show that he was guilty of manslaughter, . . or which would be sufficient to raise a doubt as to whether the homicide was murder or manslaughter. Reeves v. State, 22 Ga. App. 629 (97 S. E. 115). It is likewise well settled that it is the prerogative of the jury to accept the defendant’s statement as a whole, or to reject it as a whole, to believe it in part, or disbelieve it in part. In the exercise of this discretion they are unlimited. Brown v. State, 10 Ga. App. 50, 54 (72 S. E. 537).” May v. State, 24 Ga. App. 379, 382 (100 S. E. 797); Salter v. State, 39 Ga. App. 13 (145 S. E. 918).

Decided September 20, 1940. George B. Culpepper Jr., for plaintiff in error. Charles E. Garrett, solicitor-general, contra.

2. Applying the foregoing rulings to the facts of the instant case, it does not appear that the court erred in instructing the jury on the law of voluntary manslaughter; or that the verdict of voluntary manslaughter was not authorized by the evidence.

Judgment affirmed.

MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.

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Broyles, O. J.

1. “It is well settled by numerous rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court that the law of voluntary manslaughter may properly be given in charge to the jury on the trial of one indicted for murder, where, from the evidence or from the defendant’s statement to [263]*263the jury, there is anything deducible which would tend to show that he was guilty of manslaughter, . . or which would be sufficient to raise a doubt as to whether the homicide was murder or manslaughter. Reeves v. State, 22 Ga. App. 629 (97 S. E. 115). It is likewise well settled that it is the prerogative of the jury to accept the defendant’s statement as a whole, or to reject it as a whole, to believe it in part, or disbelieve it in part. In the exercise of this discretion they are unlimited. Brown v. State, 10 Ga. App. 50, 54 (72 S. E. 537).” May v. State, 24 Ga. App. 379, 382 (100 S. E. 797); Salter v. State, 39 Ga. App. 13 (145 S. E. 918).

Decided September 20, 1940. George B. Culpepper Jr., for plaintiff in error. Charles E. Garrett, solicitor-general, contra.

2. Applying the foregoing rulings to the facts of the instant case, it does not appear that the court erred in instructing the jury on the law of voluntary manslaughter; or that the verdict of voluntary manslaughter was not authorized by the evidence.

Judgment affirmed.

MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.

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