State v. Scarbrock

The appellants, W. W. Scarbrock and Willie Scarbrock, his son, were charged with the murder of one Ed. Hastings, and were convicted of manslaughter. They reserved eleven bills of exception; of which Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 11 are not now urged.

I

Bills 4, 5, 6, and 7 all relate to the same matter, to wit, the refusal of the trial judge to permit defendants to introduce evidence of alleged prior threats by the deceased against the accused.

The statutory law and fixed jurisprudence of this state are that, “in the absence of proof of hostile demonstration or of overt act on the part of the person slain…