Fuqua v. State

One of the defenses embraced in appellant’s plea to the indictment, was that known as “self defense.” There was testimony introduced by her, tending to support her contention in this regard.

In his general charge to the jury, the court charged, as a part of the law of the ease: “The burden of proof under the plea of self defense is first upon the defendant to prove the second and third elements of self defense, that is, that he was in danger, either real or apparent, at the time he shot, of losing his own life or of receiving grievous bodily harm and that he could not retreat without…