Lepker v. State

Upon a charge of murdering one Jim Bradney, alias Prank Edwards, on July 22, 1931, defendant Arthur Lepker was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to a term of twenty-five to fifty years in the state prison. He has appealed.

The defendant has attempted to justify his act on the ground of self-defense, or, as we shall see, on the ground that the deceased was an all-around criminal and bad man generally, of whom he was in mortal fear.

The assignments are: (1) That the court erred in refusing to permit the ■ defendant to introduce evidence of specific acts of…