Owens v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting Jess Allen. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and has appealed. One of the assignments of error is that the testimony shows indisputably that the killing was done by appellant in his necessary self-defense, and that it was therefore error to convict him of any degreé of homicide

The testimony shows that bad blood existed between appellant and deceased, and mutual threats of violence had been made by each against the other. The testimony on the part of appellant is to the following…