State v. Fowler

Defendant’s assignments of error challenge the correctness of the judge’s instructions to the jury on the law of self-defense.

The court charged the jury as follows:

“Now the defendant has contended that he shot the deceased in self-defense. The Court instructs you that in order to show self-defense the killing with a deadly weapon having been admitted by the defendant as he has in this case, the defendant must show an absence of fault on his part, and that the killing was done while he was under actual fear or had reasonable grounds to fear that his life was in dianger and that he was in…