Meadows v. United States

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This case is an appeal from a judgment of conviction, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, of murder in the second degree.. The question presented on the appeal is as to the correctness of the instructions given the jury.

The indictment was for murder in the' first degree. The defendant’s plea was not guilty, the theory thereof being self-defense. The testimony relied upon by the Government in support of its theory that the defendant was guilty of murder in the first degree was, briefly, to the effect that: The defendant on the night of March 5, 1935,…