Saylor v. State

Special ground 1 of the amended motion for a new trial assigns error on the following charge of the court: “Under our law everyone has a right to defend himself. The standard of the law is the fear of a reasonable man. Therefore, if one should shoot another with a pistol under circumstances which would justify a reasonable man in believing that a felonious assault was being or about to be committed upon his person, and that the defendant acted under the influence of those fears and not in a spirit of revenge, he would be justified under the law, and it would be the duty of the jury to…