State v. . Taylor

It is apparent from a careful perusal of the record that the defendant’s plea of self-defense was not very impressive to the jury. At any rate, the threat of harm from a gun hanging on a rack in another part of the house thirty feet away was not regarded as immediate, or such as to excuse the brutal killing. The plea was rejected. It is not perceived upon what theory the bad reputation of deceased’s house “for drinking and frolicking parties” could have affected the result. The exclusion of this evidence was without significance in the case. S. v. Hodgin, 210 N. C., 371, 186 S. E., 495; S. v.…