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161 Ala. 14

Bluitt v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 24, 1909

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1909-05-24

Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. Rich Bluitt was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals. The following charges were refused to the defendant: “(4) I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that you cannot convict the defendant unless yon believe from the evidence that the defendant' shot the deceased unlaAVfully and with malice.

Relies on Bluett v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Reversed and remanded · Decided 1909-05-24

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 1958 · most notably Smith v. State (1913), Cain v. Skillin (1929)

41 state decisions

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ANDERSON, J.

¶1The defendant was tried for manslaughter, not murder; and as malice is not an essential ingredient of manslaughter, charge 4, by the defendant, was properly refused.

¶2Charges 5, 6, 7, and 8, requested by defendant, were properly refused. If not otherwise bad, they were faulty and misleading in pretermitting defendants freedom from fault in provoking the difficulty. He may not have actually brought on the difficulty, but may have, by some word or deed, provoked or contributed to same, yet"the jury could be misled by the charges to the exoneration of the defendant, unless he actually, solely, and entirely brought on the difficulty.

¶3Charge 13, refused the defendant, should have been given. It is an exact copy of. charge 26 held good upon the former appeal, 151 Ala. 41, 44 South. 84. The evi-. dence is not so changed upon the present appeal as to render it abstract. Nor can its refusal be justified because duplicated by given chages, as none of the given charges, disclosed by the record, cover said charge.

¶4The judgment of the law and equity court is reversed and the cause is remanded.

¶5Reversed and remanded.

Dowdell, C. J., and Simpson and McClellan, JJ., concur.
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