State v. Rogers

The case for the defense portrays the evidence as a father’s reactions to a vicious assault on his young son in the presence of his young daughter ; a subsequent assault upon the son in his presence; resistance and escape by the arrestee during a citizen arrest and a shouted warning that the arrestee had a gun, all resulting in a homicide which was both excusable and justifiable because it was perpetrated in self-defense, while exercising the privilege of making a citizen arrest.

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Inasmuch as self-defense is an affirmative defense, which must be established by a preponderance of the evidence…