Williams v. State

Holden J.

(Dissenting).

From the undisputed facts of the case, which are fully set out and discussed by both the main and dissenting opinions, I am convinced that, as a matter of law and natural justice which should be rendered unto every human being, the appellant is guilty of no crime, because he acted as any reasonable man would have acted in shooting an apparently dangerous drunken man who was actually breaking into his residence over his protest, and after repeated refusals by appellant to let him in.

That the appellant could reasonably assume that the drunken stranger would commit a crime…