Blankenship v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial judge did not err in a murder case by instructing the jury on the lesser-included offenses of voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and assault and battery
• “[T]he burden was on the accused to produce evidence showing justification or excuse for the homicide.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).