As Amended
SEC. 97-3-35. Homicide; killing without malice in the heat of passion.
The killing of a human being, without malice, in the heat of passion, but in a cruel or unusual manner, or by the use of a dangerous weapon, without authority of law, and not in necessary self-defense, shall be manslaughter.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (10), (12); 1857, ch. 64, arts. 174, 176; 1871, Secs. 2637, 2639; 1880, Secs. 2885, 2887; 1892, Secs. 1158, 1160; 1906, Secs. 1236, 1238; Hemingway's 1917, Secs. 966, 968; 1930, Secs. 994, 996; 1942, Secs. 2224, 2226.