 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
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1860 - 712 pages
...sufficient, in the minds of the jury, to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or there is an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, then it is manslaughter and not murder. 2nd. The law makes the killing of a human being murder when... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1922 - 700 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 upon the person killing. The killing must be the result of that sudden, violent impulse of passion... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1862 - 1096 pages
...provocation not by words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous gestures, whether said or sung, but an actual assault upon the person killing, or an attempt...a serious personal injury on the person killing." This charge, when considered vith reference to the facts of this case, is erroneous. The Court "was... | |
 | North Dakota - 1862 - 640 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. there should appear, to have been an interval between the assault or provocation given and the killing,... | |
 | Idaho (Ter.) - 1864 - 762 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistable passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt, by the person killed, to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. SEC. 20. The killing must be tne result of that sudden violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistable... | |
 | Idaho - 1864 - 734 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistable passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt, by the person killed, to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. SEC. 20. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistable... | |
 | California, Theodore Henry Hittell - 1865 - 662 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. 1428. SEO. 24. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion supposed to... | |
 | Montana (Ter.) - 1866 - 792 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. of a human being without any intent to do so, in the commission of any unlawful act. or a lawful act... | |
 | Montana - 1866 - 802 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 20. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistible... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1872 - 790 pages
...becomes my duty to explain what acts reduce a homicide to voluntary manslaughter. To reduce the crime to manslaughter, there must be some actual assault upon...an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious injury upon the person killing, or other equivalent circumstances to justify the excitement of passion,... | |
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