McGaw v. State

McGaw, plaintiff in error, was indicted under Section 12420, General Code, for maliciously shooting one Frank Peleggi with intent to wound. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of not less than one year nor more than twenty years in the Ohio penitentiary. This judgment of the trial court was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

McGaw prosecutes error to this court, assigning two grounds of error: First, the rejecting of competent testimony offered in support of his defense of self-defense; and, second, a wrong statement of the law made by the trial judge in his charge to the…