Young v. Copple

The first question presented for our consideration is, whether or not a plea of guilty to an indictment for an assault with a deadly weapon, with intent to inflict a bodily injury on the person of another, where no considerable provocation appears, estops the defendant, when sued in an action of trespass for damages for the same assault, from justifying the assault as having been made in the proper defense of his person or property. The trial court, answering this question in the negative, permitted the appellee, who was the defendant in the court below, to give his reasons for pleading…