State v. Edwards

PARKER, Judge.

Defendant contends that the trial judge committed error in his instructions to the jury in that, although the jury was instructed as to the justification of a defendant to act in defense of self, there was no instruction as to the right of the defendant to act in defense of his home.

Defendant offered evidence that he was in his home when he was threatened by the prosecuting witness and “somebody or *198Mr. Brown” subsequently fired a gunshot into the house. “Ordinarily, when a person, who is free from fault in bringing on a difficulty, is attacked in his own dwelling, or home, or…