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1. The appellant, who was the lover of the deceased girl, made several voluntary statements which amounted to confessions to premeditated murder. At the trial, for the first time, he put forward the story of a quarrel in which the deceased had slapped his face. The quarrel became a fight in which blows were exchanged. She kicked him and threw a stick or mallet which struck him on the knee hurting an old injury and then she took up a small knife and they struggled together for possession of it. I