Griffin v. State
| Decision Date | 19 July 1916 |
| Docket Number | (No. 7391.) |
| Citation | 18 Ga.App. 462,89 S.E. 537 |
| Parties | GRIFFIN. v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Rehearing Denied July 31, 1916.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Error from Superior Court, Ware County; J. I. Summerall, Judge.
W. J. Griffin was convicted of homicide, and brings error. Affirmed.
Harry M. Wilson, Parker & Walker, and Wilson & Bennett, all of Waycross, for plaintiff in error.
M. D. Dickerson, Sol. Gen., of Douglas, and A. B. Spence, of Waycross, for the State.
BROYLES, J. Judgment affirmed.
HODGES, J. (dissenting). I cannot concur in the majority opinion as set forth in the first paragraph of the decision, as I do not think the evidence admissible; the accused not having put his character in issue.
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Tanner v. State
...or involuntary, the court should instruct the jury upon these grades of manslaughter as well as murder.' " In Griffin v. State, 18 Ga. App. 462, 89 S. E. 537 (5), it is said: "If there be any evidence to create a doubt, however slight, as to whether the offense is murder or voluntary mansla......
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Davidson v. State, 51066
...voluntary or involuntary, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury fully on the law of manslaughter.' Griffin v. State, 18 Ga.App. 462, 89 S.E. 537. In Wager v. State, 74 Ga.App. 729, 41 S.E.2d 342, it was held reversible error not to charge the law of involuntary manslaughter even ......
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Wager v. State, 31423
...is the duty of the court to charge on all these grades of homicide." Jackson v. State, 43 Ga.App. 468, 159 S.E. 293. In Griffin v. State, 18 Ga.App. 462, 89 S.E. 537, 538, it was said: "If there is anything deducible from the evidence, or from the defendant's statement at the trial, that wo......
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Cain v. State, (No. 19332.)
...might arise as to the intention to kill, the court should give in charge the law of involuntary manslaughter." In Griffin v. State, 18 Ga. App. 462(5n), 89 S. E. 537, this court held: "If there is anything deducible from the evidence, or from the defendant's statement at the trial, that wou......
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