Ricketson v. State

1. Where, on the trial of one indicted for murder, the evidence as to admissions or inculpatory statements made by the defendant in regard to the homicide was to the effect that he said that the person killed was trying to cut him with a knife and he had to shoot in self-defense; and whe.re, in the statement made by the prisoner at the trial, he said that the deceased was trying to cut him with a knife, and to defend himself he drew his pistol and fired without pointing it at the deceased, but the ball took effect, it was error to charge, that, “if the killing is proven to the satisfaction of…