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
| 1922 - 1008 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... | |
| 1916 - 1142 pages
...malice and the result of sudden, violent, impulsive passion, supposed to be irresistible, produced by an actual assault upon the person killing or an attempt...person killed to commit a serious personal injury upon the person killing, or other equivalent circumstance. Penal Code, § 65. The slayer must have... | |
| 1892 - 1068 pages
...in the commission of an unlawful act, or lawful act without due caution or circumspection; and tbat in all cases of voluntary manslaughter there must be some actual assault upon the per son killing, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal inJury upon the person... | |
| 1906 - 1076 pages
...tho law of manslaughter, as applicable to the case of one who kills because of an unprovoked assault, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal Injury upon the person killing, should be Included In the charge. In still other Instances the trial court... | |
| California. Supreme Court - 1917 - 940 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,... | |
| 1915 - 1228 pages
...VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER—DEFENSE OF BROTHEB — "OTHER EQUIVALENT CIRCUMSTANCES." To authorize a conviction of voluntary manslaughter, there must be some actual...the [ person killed, to commit a serious personal in| jury on the person killing, or other equivalent ' circumstances (italics ours), to justify the... | |
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