39 S.E.2d 684 YEARWOOD v. STATE. 15502.Supreme Court of Georgia. SEPTEMBER 6, 1946. BELL, Chief Justice. 1. In order to reduce a homicide from murder to manslaughter, there must be more than provocation by mere words, for “Provocation by words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous gestures shall in no case be sufficient to free the person […]
