Mendez v. State

— The appellant, to whom we shall refer as defendant, was indicted and tried in Pima county for the murder of one José Amarillas, and was convicted of manslaughter. He defended on the ground of self-defense and also claimed the killing was accidental.

The defendant testified as a witness in his own behalf. After stating that the deceased’s general reputation was that of a dangerous, turbulent, and violent man, he offered to testify that at the time of the homicide he had been informed of two shooting scrapes that happened in Pima county, or in that part of the state, in which deceased had been…