Brown v. State

— The defendant was indicted and convicted of assaulting and beating one Adams with a stick, or other weapon of like kind. It appears from the evidence that the defendant brought on the difficulty, by cursing Adams, and was also the aggressor in striking the. first blow. There is no color of pretense that he was acting in self-defense.

Under this state of facts, it is very clear that the court committed no error whatever in excluding the evidence, offered by the defendant, as to alleged bad character of Adams. It is no more permissible to beat a blood-thirsty ruffian, without some good and…