Pletcher v. Younker

Pletcher having admitted the injury, he was liable unless the jury found he acted in self-defense, and even then he would be liable if the force used by him was more than the exigency reasonably demanded.

It is urged that the court erred in permitting a doctor to testify that from the nature of the wound he should judge that Younker was either hit from behind or if hit from in front that it was while he was bending over; the witness saying, “It might have been from in front; I would not say it was not.”

We are clearly of the opinion that the case should not be reversed for error in admitting…