State v. Pairs

The defendant was convicted of the murder of one Dan Kibler and sentenced to life imprisonment. He pleaded self-defense, and relies, for a reversal of the verdict and sentence, upon a bill of exception taken to the refusal of the judge to allow him to prove that Kibler had previously threatened to kill him.

[1] The objection to the proof that the alleged threats had been made and communicated to defendant before the fatal difficulty was that the evidence submitted to the jury did not show affirmatively that Kibler* was attempting to carry out the alleged *445threats when defendant shot and killed…