Havill v. State

The plaintiff in error, Charley Havill, was convicted at the July, 1913, term of the district court of Cleveland county on a charge of maiming, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of one year and one day.

The Attorney General has filed the following confession in error:

“The plaintiff in error was prosecuted for maiming. There is a sharp conflict in the testimony as to who was the real aggressor. The evidence introduced by defendant tended to prove that the act for which he was being prosecuted was committed in defense of his person. The court…