Strahan v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
Smith}, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The state’s contention that the appellant did not kill the deceased in necessary self-defense rests upon two extrajudicial statements of the appellant, both of which are manifestly untrue, but neither of which if true contain any admission of guilt, and on evidence of a. part of what occurred when the deceased was killed.
The evidence for the appellant discloses all of what occurred at the ¡killing, and is not in conflict with the evidence of that portion of what there occurred that was introduced by the state, shows that the appellant killed…
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