 | Georgia, Oliver Hillhouse Prince - Law - 1822 - 686 pages
...lawful act without due caution and circumspection. 35. Sec. VI. In all cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be some actual assault upon the person killing, or an attempt bv the "* volunl»rv .... , .* . , . ? , '. . in.uislauíh person killed, to commit a serious personal... | |
 | Georgia - Law - 1834 - 498 pages
...lawful act without due caution and circumspection. SEC.- 7. In all cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be some actual assault upon the person...commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. Provocation by words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous jestures shall in no case be sufficient to... | |
 | Georgia - Law - 1837 - 1082 pages
...and circumspection. What shall 54. Sec. VII. In all cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must K.' be some actual assault upon the person killing, or...a serious personal injury on the person killing.. Provocation by words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous jestures shall in no case be sufficient to... | |
 | Illinois - Illinois - 1845 - 766 pages
...person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an atlempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing. SEC. 27. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion, supposed to be irresistible... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1890 - 912 pages
...made an actual assault or attempted to commit a serious personal injury on accused, or if there were other equivalent circumstances to justify the excitement...deliberation or malice, either express or implied, the stabbing was not murder but voluntary manslaughter, although accused intended to kill when he stabbed.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1881 - 876 pages
...The court should have completed the sentence in which these words are found (Code, §4325) by adding, "or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious...person killing, or other equivalent circumstances 10 justify the excitement of passion, and exclude all idea of deliberation or malice, either express... | |
 | California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - Law - 1853 - 1108 pages
...inflicted upon the person killing, ml 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. 24. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent im- Manslaughter, pulse of passion supposed... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1853 - 782 pages
...that event the killing would be manslaughter. If there is no assault and no attempt on the part of the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing, and the intention to shoot entered the mind even a moment before the firing, and the slayer does shoot,... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 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. 24. The killing must be the result of that sudden violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistible... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1859 - 788 pages
...Code. The 7th section of the fourth division, commences thus: " In all cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be some actual assault upon the person...a serious personal injury on the person killing." What does the expression mean here ? It is immediately followed by the words, " provocation by words,... | |
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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... 
