Reed v. State

Citations

• 9 Tex. Ct. App. 317

Syllabus

<p>1. Charge op the Court.—It is incumbent on the court, in every trial for felony, to give in charge to the jury the law applicable to every deduction which they may draw from the evidence.</p> <p>2. Same. —Note circumstances in proof in a trial for murder, and recapitulated in the opinion, from which the jury might have inferred “ adequate cause ” for the sudden passion which mitigates culpable homicide from murder to manslaughter, and which, therefore, imposed upon the trial court the duty of giving in charge to the jury .the law of manslaughter as part of the law applicable to the case.</p>