Johnson v. State

The evidence fully warranted the verdict of guilty in this case, unless the jury believed the testimony in behalf of the defendant and his statement to the effect that he killed the deceased under the fears of a reasonable man that his own life was in immediate danger; and since the evidence is uncontradicted that he pursued the deceased for a considerable distance and assaulted him more than once with three different species of weapons, it is no marvel that this theory was not credited by the jury. There is no exception to the charge of the court, and so it must be presumed that the jury…