Patterson v. State

The defendant was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

The defendant in his statement said, in effect and substance, that he shot the prosecutor under reasonable fears that the prosecutor was about to commit a felony upon him, — that is, cut him with a knife. The only special ground of the motion for a new trial alleges that the court erred in charging the jury, in part, as follows: “The only ground he could be found not guilty in the case is that you should not be satisfied that he acted strictly in self-defense under an…