State v. Carter

Under the law of self-defense a person may not only take life in his own defense, but he may also do so in defense of another who stands in a family relation to him. S. v. Greer, 162 N.C. 640, 78 S.E. 310; S. v. Anderson, 222 N.C. 148, 22 S.E. 2d 271; S. v. Church, 229 N.C. 718, 51 S.E. 2d 345; S. v. Rawley, 237 N.C. 233, 74 S.E. 2d 620.

While, ordinarily, as contended by the State, the intentional killing of another with a deadly weapon raises two presumptions against the defendant, first, that the killing was unlawful, and second, that it was done with malice. S. v. Mangum, 245 N.C. 323, 96…