VAUGHN, Judge.
Defendant was indicted for the murder of his wife and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. There was ample evidence to have supported a verdict of a higher degree of homicide. We must, nevertheless, order a new trial because the jury was not properly instructed on a possible verdict of involuntary manslaughter as it related to defendant's evidence.
It is the duty of the judge to declare and explain the law arising on all of the evidence including...
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