Alexander v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Conviction of manslaughter. Before Judge Sheffield. Early superior court. February 2, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
The defendant was granted a new trial (Alexander v. State, 114 Ga. 266), and again found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. It appeared that he fired several shots, one and probably the last of which killed Cherry. He insisted that he did so to protect his father against a felonious assault by Cherry; that thereupon the latter advanced upon the defendant in a threatening attitude, with an instrument likely to produce death in his hand, and that in shooting he acted under the fears of a reasonable man, and in self-defense. The judge fully and fairly submitted the issues raised by the evidence,…
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