Skinner v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for pointing gun, etc. Before Judge Janes. Douglas superior court. November term, 1895. Tbe prosecutor, P. B. Bingbam, testified: Monday morning about 8 o’clock, I left my bouse to go1 to> Eason’s to sbave; did not liave a full set of tools to sbave witb. As 1 passed prisoner’s bouse; be opened bis door, witb double-barreled shotgun in bis band and threw it on me; pointed it at me witb botb barrels cocked.
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Indictment for pointing gun, etc. Before Judge Janes. Douglas superior court. November term, 1895. Tbe prosecutor, P. B. Bingbam, testified: Monday morning about 8 o’clock, I left my bouse to go1 to> Eason’s to sbave; did not liave a full set of tools to sbave witb. As 1 passed prisoner’s bouse; be opened bis door, witb double-barreled shotgun in bis band and threw it on me; pointed it at me witb botb barrels cocked. Was in tbe big road; did nothing nor said anything to cause him to do it. He advanced on me as far as I would let bim. Drew my razor and kept bim off witb it. Did not call bim a…
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson, Justice.
The official report states the facts.
1. The defendant was indicted under the provisions of section 343 of the Penal Code, for the offense of pointing a gun at another. He undertook to justify by the introduction of evidence showing the use by the prosecutor to him, of him and in his presence, of opprobrious words; and the trial judge instructed the jury that the use of such language, however opprobrious, could not justify or excuse the pointing of a gun at another.
We know of no case within the provisions of our law in which the commission of a criminal offense can be…
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