1. Tlie evidence authorized the verdict of guilty. 2. The court did hot err in excluding testimony by the officer who brought the defendant from another State back to this State, as to statements made by the defendant in the city of his arrest, since such testimony so far as it could have benefited the defendant amounted to only a self-serving declaration.
3. While it is true that a general charge on the subject of voluntary manslaughter in the language of the Code will not suffice, where under the
4. The instruction on the law of flight from the scene of a crime shows no prejudicial error.
5. Even where the law of voluntary manslaughter, under the Code, § 26-1007, is involved under the evidence, or is charged without exception by the defendant, and where the law of justifiable homicide, under §§ 26-1011 and 26-1012, is involved, and instructions are given as to the legal rules in the sections stated, it is not error, as here complained of, to fail to charge the law of justifiable homicide in immediate connection with the charge on the general law of voluntary manslaughter. Walker v. State, 186 Ga. 882, 884 (199 S. E. 231); Gossitt v. State, 182 Ga. 535 (4), 538 (186 S. E. 417); Deal v. State, 145 Ga. 33, 34 (88 S. E. 573).
6. The statement by the solicitor-general in his argument to the jury, that the defendant shot the deceased “like a bloodthirsty wretch,” did not require that a mistrial be declared, where such statement, in reply to a similar statement with reference to the deceased by counsel for the defendant, was not made extraneously but as a deduction from testimony for the State, discussed in connection therewith.
Judgment affirmed.