State v. Sheets

By the Court.

The Court of Appeals of the Fourth District certified this cause to this court because the judgment pronounced by it was in conflict with a judgment on the same question pronounced by the Court of Appeals of the Third District, sitting in Van Wert county, in the case of Stewart v. State, reported in 105 Ohio St., 625, 138 N. E., 876. The conflict arose on the charge of the court.

Erie Sheets was indicted for murder in the second degree, and convicted of manslaughter. His defense in the trial court was that the killing was justified on the ground of self-defense — in the defense of…