 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. Supreme Court - 1884 - 934 pages
...affirmed. Judgment affirmed. WORTHAM vs. THE STATE OF GEORGIA. 1. To reduce a killing from mimler to voluntary manslaughter, there must be some actual...person killed to commit a serious personal injury upon the person killing. Provocation by words, threats, menaces or contemptuous gestures in no case... | |
 | 1885 - 968 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. In other words, the passion must proceed from an adequate cause. If the jury lind from the evidence... | |
 | Illinois - 1887 - 2194 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, vlolent'linpulseof passion supposed to be Irresistible;... | |
 | Frederick Sackett, Martin L. Newell - 1888 - 836 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 the sudden, violent impulse of passion, supposed to be irresistible;... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1890 - 904 pages
...give this in charge. It is too vague and indefinite. Passion will only mitigate when there has been "some actual assault upon the person killing, or an...commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, or other equivalent circumstances to justify the excitement of passion, and to exclude al] idea of... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1894 - 1024 pages
...passion supposed to be irresistible," and that " there must be some actual assault upon the per* son killing, or an attempt by the person killed to 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 - 1896 - 434 pages
...act, or a lawful act without due caution and circumspection. §65. (4825.) Voluntary manslaughter. In all cases of voluntary <$*'. "•• manslaughter,...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... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1058 pages
...Golden v. State, 25 Ga. 532; Stokes v. State, 18 Ga. 17. Our Penal Code, section 65, declares that in all cases of voluntary manslaughter there must...commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, or other equivalent circumstances to justify the excitement of passion. Assuming, as we must under... | |
 | 1900 - 1068 pages
...the Penal Code. The latter section prescribes that, In order to Justify the excitement of passion, there must be some actual assault upon the person...commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, or other equivalent circumstances; that is, circumstances equivalent to an assault, or equivalent to... | |
 | 1900 - 1130 pages
...that, In order to justify the excitement of passion, there must be some actual assault upon the pin-son killing, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal Injury on the person killing, or other equivalent circumstances; that Is, circumstances equivalent to an assault, or equivalent to... | |
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