 In cases of voluntary manslaughter there must be a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a. serious personal...  Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia - Page 148by Georgia - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Georgia, Oliver Hillhouse Prince - 1822 - 686 pages
...commission of an unlawful act, or a lawful act without due caution and circumspection. 35. Sec. VI. In all cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must...actual assault upon the person killing, or an attempt bv the "* volunl»rv .... , .* . , . ? , '. . in.uislauíh person killed, to commit a serious personal... | |
 | Illinois - 1845 - 766 pages
...person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an atlempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. SEC. 27. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion, supposed to be irresistible... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1889 - 950 pages
...the killing must not only be without malice, and without any mixture of deliberation, whatever, but "there must be some actual assault upon the person...commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, or other equivalent circumstances to justify the excitement of passion, and to exclude all idea of... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1881 - 876 pages
...murder; when facts tend to show absence of malice, or justication other than self-defense, charge that "in all cases of voluntary manslaughter there must be some actual assault," etc. , too restricted. Court should have completed sentence in which these words are found, Code, §4325,... | |
 | California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - 1853 - 1108 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, ml sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. SEC. 24. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent im- Manslaughter, pulse of passion supposed... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1853 - 782 pages
...that event the killing would be manslaughter. If there is no assault and no attempt on the part of the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, and the intention to shoot entered the mind even a moment before the firing, and the slayer does shoot,... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 834 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. Sec. 24. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistible... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1859 - 788 pages
...? This expression is taken from the Code. The 7th section of the fourth division, commences thus: " In all cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must...a serious personal injury on the person killing." What does the expression mean here ? It is immediately followed by the words, " provocation by words,... | |
 | Nebraska - 1859 - 464 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. § 24. The killing must be the result of that sudden, violent impulse of passion, supposed to be irresistible;... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1914 - 714 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. The killing must be the result of that sudden, violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistible;... | |
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