State v. McCrory

Defendant was indicted and tried on a charge of shooting with intent to kill and murder, and, on a verdict of guilty as charged, the lower court sentenced him to serve a term of one year in the parish jail and to pay a fine of $1. Erom this verdict and sentence he has appealed.

The only question presented in the record is an exception to the overruling of defendant’s motion for a new trial, based upon an alleged erroneous charge to the jury. The charge as given was as follows:

“A man may repel force by force in defense of his person, habitation, or property, against one who manifestly intends…