McDuffie v. State

Lumpkin, Justice.

1. The accused being on trial for murder, and relying upon the defence that he shot the deceased under the fears of a reasonable man that the deceased and his brother were about to kill him or do him some serious bodily injury, his counsel requested the court to charge as follows: “If, after considering all the evidence in the case, you have reasonable doubt as to the existence of such purpose on the part of the deceased and his brother, or on the part of either of them, then and there to kill McDuffie, or to do him some serious bodily injury; or if you have a reasonable…