Burnell v. State

The defendant was indicted on a charge of assault to murder and on his trial was convicted of assault and battery. There are many objections and exceptions, too numerous to be discussed in detail, all attempting to bring to the aid of defendant on his plea of self-defense section 3267 of the Code of 1923, allowing a private person to arrest another where a felony has been committed, though not in his presence, of which defendant had reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested committed it; i. e., if the defendant acting under authority of the above Code section was attempting to make…