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189 Ga. 339

Weaver v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided November 29, 1939

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1939-11-29

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1959

1 state decisions

Relies on Drane v. State

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Decided 1939-11-29

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Jenkins, Justice.

¶1This case is controlled by the decision in Drane v. State, 147 Ga. 212 (93 S. E. 217), which we think was sound in principle, and in which the facts were very similar to those disclosed by the present record. As in that case, it must be held that the court erred in not charging the jury on the law of voluntary manslaughter.

¶2Judgment reversed,.

All the Justices concur.J. W. Werner, for plaintiff in error.Ellis G. Arnall, attorney-general; John A. Boylcm, solicitor-general, J. W. LeCraw, Dulce Davis, G. E. Gregory Jr., assistant attorney s-general, and E. A. Stephens, contra.
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