Bailey v. State

The plea in this case was self-defense. The evidence for defendant tended to sustain this plea. The defendant requested the court in writing to give charge No. 7. This charge was refused. This charge should have been given. It did not profess to set out the ingredients of self-defense, but dealt only with the question as to whether great bodily harm threatened is equal to life threatened, so as to justify the use of force. Crumley v. State, 18 Ala. App. 105, 89 So. 847; Bone v. State, 8 Ala. App. 59, 62 So. 455; Black v. State, 5 Ala. App. 87, 59 So. 692; Richardson v. State, 204 Ala. 124, 85…