Clark v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ninety-nine years.

Appellant shot and killed his mother-in-law, Emma Ross.

The principal legal question arises on account of the refusal of the request of the appellant that the jury be instructed that it was his right, for his own protection, to arm himself and go to the house of the deceased to request his personal property which had been taken from his home without his consent.

Appellant was a negro about twenty-one years of age. He had been married to a young woman, the daughter…