Brown v. State

On an indictment for murder in the first degree by shooting, Laura Brown was convicted of manslaughter and took a writ of ex’ror. Self-defense was interposed as a defence to the charge; and oh the evidence adduced considered in the light of the charges on the law of self-defense a new trial should be granted.

It does not clearly appear that the accused did “by her wrongful act or conduct provoke or bring about the diffi*661culty” that immediately precipitated tlm fatal shooting; and the evidence is not conclusive that she did not have rea'son to fear bodily harm from the man, her brother-in-law,…