McCarty v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the -Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

Buell McCarty complains of a conviction for manslaughter. His chief criticism of the trial is that the instruction on self-defense was modified so as to deprive him of that right if he brought on the fatal difficulty by addressing insulting language to the man who was slain with the intent to insult him and to provoke a difficulty. The objection is not to the form of the instruction, but goes to the basic contention that the facts proven were insufficient to justify any restriction on the right of self-defense.

A brief statement of the facts will…