 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 808 pages
...time of the killing were such as to impress the mind of a reasonable man that the life of ithe accused was in danger or that he was. in danger of great bodily harm, and that he could not retreat without increasing that danger then the accused had the right to shoot... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1266 pages
...by the appearance of such a necessity, which was sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable man that his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of great bodily harm, and that there was no escape from the danger but by slaying his antagonist. For the error in giving... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1090 pages
...the defendant honestly believe by reason of the suddenness, violence, and determination of the attack that his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of great bodily hurt; that the suddenness of the attack, and the number of his assailants was such that he could not... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 856 pages
...purpose of showing that the circumstances of the offense were such as to excite the reasonable fears of the defendant that his life was In danger, or that he was In danger of serious bodily Injury, and thus justify his act. 1:19. IDEM. — In a case of homicide where It Is... | |
 | Dick Kreck - True Crime - 2003 - 228 pages
...Henwood, at the time he fired the shot or shots at the said von Phul, honestly and in good faith believed his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of suffering great bodily harm, although such danger was not real, but apparent; and if the circumstances... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 664 pages
...preponderance of the evidence that the deceased made a hostile demonstration against him justifying his belief that his life was in danger or that he was in danger of great bodily hiirm, so that proof of prior threats was properly rejected. — Id. Mere evidence of threats as distinguished... | |
 | Alabama. Court of Appeals, Lawrence H. Lee - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 784 pages
...without greatly increasing the danger, and that King fired the fatal shot under the reasonable belief that his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of suffering great bodily harm, then you must find the defendant not guilty. (5) While the laws says that,... | |
 | Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1010 pages
...by said William F. Bleisner and assaulted the defendant in such a manner as to cause him to believe that his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of some great bodily harm, then the defendant would have the legal right to defend himself even to the... | |
 | 1919 - 1828 pages
...right of the defendant to kill the deceased on freedom from fault, and on defendant's honest belief that his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of grievous bodily harm. This is an incorrect statement of the rule. A man has not the right [2 ALR to... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 592 pages
...own, under oath, in the presence of the jury, that at the time of the fatal shot he really believed his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of receiving great bodily injury. It was a fact proper be be considered and weighed by the jury, as to... | |
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... the defendant that his life was in danger, or that he was in danger of serious bodily injury, and thus justify his act. 
