Frazier v. State

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

1. The court charged the jury as follows: “The defenses set up here . . are two; one is, the defendant contends that she killed the deceased in her own self-defense. If you believe that, she is not guilty. The other defense is, that when she did kill her, if the evidence shows that she did, she did so under the fears of a reasonable man . . that some bodily harm was about to be done her, amounting to a felony, . . and that she really acted under the influence of those fears, and not in a spirit of revenge. If you believe that, she is not guilty. And a seeming…