Maner v. State

1. Where, on the trial of one charged with the murder of his brother by shooting him with a rifle, the jury would have been authorized to find from all the evidence and the defendant’s statement to the jury: that the accused was guilty of murder, in that he shot his brother in anger during or shortly after an argument over a pair of socks; or to find that the accused was justified in killing his brother, in that he did so in defense of himself or their mother from a murderous attack by the brother, either on their mother or on the accused, with a roofing knife or pocket knife; or that the…