Weaver v. State

CARR, Judge.

Without dispute in the evidence John Norton Weaver, the appellant, killed Ersal R. Hall by shooting him three times with a pistol.

For the homicide the accused was indicted for murder in the first degree and was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.

The defendant claimed self defense.

In brief the appellant’s counsel urges that the general. affirmative charge should have been given in his client’s behalf. There is very little conflict in the evidence, and it appears reasonably certain that Hall brought on the fatal difficulty. However, he was unarmed and this fact, together…