Evans v. Ball

Appellee, Mrs. Sally Carter Ball, a married woman, sued Mrs. S. A. Evans and her husband, S. A. Evans, .appellants herein, to recover $5,000 actual damages as the result of a gunshot wound inflicted by Mrs. S. A. Evans upon the person of appellee, wantonly, willfully, and maliciously, with the intent to take her life or to do her serious bodily harm. She also sued for the further sum of $5,000 as exemplary or punitive damages.

Appellants answered by general denial, and as a special defense alleged that she had so shot her in self-defense and for no other purpose, and that at the time the shot…