State v. Padula

The State offered evidence to prove that as Genario Clementi was leaving the house of his uncle, one Pavella, he was accosted by the accused who demanded payment of a loan which he claimed to have made him; that Padula’s demands became so loud that Pavella and his wife and daughter came out of their house; that Padula drew a knife with his left hand and brandished it about, whereupon Clementi grasped his left wrist to prevent him from doing injury with the knife; that Padula then drew a revolver and, freeing himself from the grasp of Clementi and still holding the knife in his left hand,…