Rippy v. State

James Rippy ivas indicted in the' Circuit Court of Bedford county for the murder of Houston Porter, and convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to twenty-one yeais confinement in the penitentiary.

The verdict is well sustained by the testimony. The defence, it seems, was rested upon the existence or apprehension of danger to himself at the time of the homicide. It is now insisted there is error in the charge on that doctrine. The objection is confined to this clause.

“It is argued the deceased made violent threats against the life of defendant long before, and up to a short…