Delgado v. Sucesión de Jiménez Cruz

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• request for instruction withdrawn after defense accepted law officer [now military judge]’s suggestion that it might weaken claim of self-defense
• “Provocation sufficient to produce heat of [passion], resulting in a befuddlement of the senses of the killer and an absence of malice, may give such a character to a homicide as to reduce it to voluntary manslaughter....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).