Hartfield v. State

Appellant, a member of the Negro race, was convicted of assault and battery upon J. F. Green, the Sheriff of Greene County, with intent to kill him, and sentenced to the state penitentiary for five years.

She contends that Green had no authority to arrest her and that she had the right to use reasonable force to prevent such unlawful arrest, and that her request for a peremptory instruction should have been granted.

The legal principles are grounded in this state of facts:

Appellant and her husband occupied as their home a residence a short distance south of McLain in said county. The house…