State v. Williams

Defendant, having been tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter, has appealed.

The first bill of exceptions recites that “the defendant set up the plea of self-defense, and offered testimony to prove that he was at his place of habitation at the time of the homicide,” and that his counsel specially requested the court to charge that “the law of self-defense does not require one whose life has been threatened to leave his home or to secret himself to avoid his foe,” etc.; the requested charge being an excerpt from Desty’s Am. Cr. Law, p. 87. The second bill contains a similar recital as…