Rook v. Koons

Appellee alleges that at the time and before the shooting in which pLaintiffs were injured, he was and had been for a number of months in fear of sustaining death or serious bodily injury from Rex Williams, Jack Clark, Philip Bentley, and Altus Nunley, whose enmity he had incurred and who had threatened his life, and by whom he had been beaten on divers and sundry occasions.

The testimony of appellee and his witnesses tends to show that on the day preceding Labor Day, September 2, 1923, Phil Bentley passed defendant's home with a gun, cursed and abused him, and dared him to come off his…