State v. Welsh

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

The defendant, at the October term of the court for Lancaster (1887), was convicted of an assault and battery with intent to kill one D. K. Price., The defence interposed was that of self-defence — that Price was advancing upon the defendant with a raised crutch, and that he cut him with his knife, to save himself from great bodily harm. Price testified that one C. C. Horton and the defendant were together in front of the Catawba House in Lancaster, when he (Price) approached Horton and asked him to pay a small account “for fixing a…