HAWKINS, Justice.
1. While the trial court may not, in the absence of a timely written request therefor, be required to charge the jury in a murder case upon a theory of defense raised solely by the defendant's statement that he acted under coercion and the influence of fears produced by threats and menaces made by the actual slayer (Gore v. State, 162 Ga. 267, 272, 134 S. E. 36), yet, where the court does undertake to charge the jury with reference...
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