Deal v. State

The Court of Appeals propounds the following question: “On the trial of one indicted for murder, where the evidence or the defendant’s statement at the trial would authorize the jury to find that the person killing acted in self-defense on account of a reasonable fear aroused in his mind by words, threats, or menaces, in connection with the other facts in the case, is it for any reason error for the court to charge the jury that ‘in no case’ is provocation by words, threats, or menaces sufficient to free the person killing from the guilt and crime of murder, or to read to the jury the code…