State v. Brice

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. M. M. Mann, Acting Associate Justice.

The appellant, Bessie Brice, was tried at the June, 1938, term of General Sessions Court for Fairfield County, on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, and convicted.

Appellant is a Negro woman about twenty years of age. She was not represented by counsel at the trial.

The State was represented by the Solicitor. There are a number of exceptions, three of which assign error on the part of the presiding Judge in failing to charge the law of self-defense.

This phase of the case only will be…