State v. Ferguson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage, J., Abbeville, September term, 1911. Indictment against J. H. Ferguson. Defendant appeals. Mr. Bonham cites: Rule as to charging on facts: 47 S. C. 488; 87 S. C. 193. Charge in ■interrogative form: 49 S. C. 488, 553; 48 S. C. 136. Opprobrious language: 75 S. C. 510. Burden of proof in acci- ■ dental killing: 68 S. C. 304. Oral argument.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of tire Court was deliv■ered by
Mr. Justice FIydrick.
Defendant was tried for the ■murder of bis father. He was’ convicted of manslaughter, and-appeals from the sentence. Flis contention was that the killing was accidental, and also that hie was acting in self-defense, when the pistol, which he pointed at his father "to stop his deadly assault upon him, was accidentally dis Charged. At the trial, 'his mother testified' that the defendant and' his father were quarreling in defendant’s house; that she made ani assertion) to •which defendant replied: “You are a damn' lie.” This was the…
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