State v. Trujillo

Citations

• 27 N.M. 594
• 203 P. 846

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT</p> <p>(1) No mere words, however opprobrious or indecent, are deemed sufficient to arouse ungovernable passion, so as to reduce a homicide from murder to manslaughter. P. 596</p> <p>(2) The rule that the court should limit the issues to the degrees of crime shown by the evidence is the same in cases where the evidence is wholly circumstantial as where the evidence is direct. In the former class of cases, however, where the circumstances shown are susceptible of two or more interpretations, it is for the jury, and not the court, to draw the proper inferences from the evidence. P. 598</p> <p>(3) It is reversible error to submit, in a murder case, the issue of voluntary manslaughter to the jury where no such issue is involved in the evidence. P. 601</p>