Popps v. State

Plaintiff in error Popps was convicted of manslaughter upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree averred to have been unlawfully and feloniously committed upon the person of a man named Boyd. The issue at the trial was self defense, the accused Popps claiming that Boyd, the alleged murdered man, was coming on him in a hostile attitude, and armed with a deadly weapon in the form of a stick, at the time he was shot by defendant four or five times and thereby killed. From a seven-years sentence to the State Prison Popps has prosecuted this writ of error to the Supreme Court.

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