Evans v. Walker

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

This is a civil action for an assault and battery and the only plea interposed by the defendant was the general issue and which does not ordina-rily include justifica tion or self defense which should be specially pleaded. Morris v. McClellan, 169 Ala. 90, 53 So. 155; Hart et al. v. Jones, 14 Ala.App. 327, 70 So. 206.

It seems, however, that although there was no special plea of justification or self defense, these issues were fully gone into by the unchallenged evidence and covered by the charges, and, this being the case, this court will review the rulings relating…