Williams v. State

Citations

• 43 Tex. 382

Syllabus

<p>Charge of court—Assault with intent to murder.—On the trial of one charged with making an assault with intent to kill and murder, when the evidence shows a sudden conflict in which several were engaged, growing out of a quarrel suddenly begun at the time, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury on the distinction between murder and manslaughter, and a failure to do so will constitute error for which a judgment of conviction will be reversed.</p>