Crolger v. State

The defendant expressly abandons the general grounds of his motion for new trial, but contends that the trial court erred in charging the jury on the defense of justification. The judge charged the language of Code § 26-1011 as follows: “Justifiable homicide is the killing of a human being . . . in self-defense or in defense of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or *567surprise, to commit a felony on either, or against any person who manifestly intends or endeavors, in a riotous and tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another to…