Frazier v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for assault with intent to murder. Before Judge Littlejohn. Sumter superior court. January 8, 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
Wade Frazier was tried before a jury in the superior court of Sumter county, upon an indictment charging him with assault with intent to murder. He was found guilty, and made a motion for a new trial, to the overruling of which by the court below he excepted.
1, 2. Error is assigned upon the following charge of the court: “ A bare fear or a mere apprehension of a shooting to prevent which a killing was done will not justify. The circumstances must be such as to excite the reasonable fears in a rational mind, and the person shooting must act under the influence of such fears, and not in a…
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