Mathews v. State

1. That which is perfectly justifiable on the part of a person who is shot at can not be any legal provocation to the person shooting, on a trial for shooting at another not in his own defense or under circumstances of justification. Lingo v. State, 29 Ga. 470; Roach v. State, 34 Ga. 84.

2. Where there was evidence tending to show that the prosecutor and the accused had a difficulty in which the former struck the latter; that shortly afterwards the accused was hunting for the prosecutor and threatening to kill him, which fact was communicated to the prosecutor, and-in the difficulty which…