State v. Thompson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aedrich, J., Greenville, July, 1903. Indictment against Isadore Thompson. From sentence, defendant appeals. The charge as to self-defense is as follows : “Self-defense is the next grade I will call your attention to. Self-defense is based upon, predicated and built upon the theory of necessity. It is allowed to a man when it is necessary for him to strike to save his life, or to protect his person from serious bodily harm.
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Before Aedrich, J., Greenville, July, 1903. Indictment against Isadore Thompson. From sentence, defendant appeals. The charge as to self-defense is as follows : “Self-defense is the next grade I will call your attention to. Self-defense is based upon, predicated and built upon the theory of necessity. It is allowed to a man when it is necessary for him to strike to save his life, or to protect his person from serious bodily harm. When does the right to self-defense come to a man? He has to show you, in the first instance, that it was when he was at the time without legal fault in bringing…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
The appellant was convicted of the murder, with a recommendation to mercy, of one Arch Sullivan, at the July term, 1903, of the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County, and thereafter duly sentenced to an imprisonment for life in the State penitentiary. The testimony tended tO' show that the deceased, upon a promise of marriage, had accomplished the ruin of defendant’s daughter. During the progress of the trial and while the State was offering testimony in chief, the State offered one G. F. Spann as a witness. The…
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