State v. Goode

The defendant offered evidence tending to show that the defendant may have killed Lon Abrams in self-defense, which evidence was 'Sufficient to carry the case to the jury, ultra any un-communieated threats made a brief time before the homicide by Lon Abrams against the defendant.

Shortly before the fatal shooting Lon Abrams, armed with a shotgun, came to .the house of J. T. Woods. The defendant assigns as error that the trial court, on motion of the solicitor for the State, excluded the testimony of his witness Ernestine Woods to the effect that there at J. T. Woods’ house she heard Lon Abrams…