Buffalow v. State

The evidence shows without dispute, that the appellant killed Harvey Blaylock by shooting him with a pistol on December 24, 1927. Appellant sought to justify his act under the doctrine of self-defense, and offered evidence tending to show that Blaylock was the aggressor, and on the day of the fatal rencontre, and previous thereto, had threatened to whip and kill the defendant.

The evidence further tended to show that because of a previous difficulty between the parties occurring in the fall of 1926, had blood existed between the appellant and the deceased, and, in addition to the fact of such…