Harris v. State

The defendant was convicted of shooting at another. The evidence showed that Ebb Burden, William Wansley, and the defendant “staged” a shooting affray, the defendant shooting at Burden and Wansley, and Burden and Wansley shooting at 'him; that the defendant was shot twice, while neither Burden nor Wansley was hit. The evidence would have authorized a finding that Burden and Wansley were the aggressors in the affray, and that when the defendant shot at them the circumstances were sufficient to excite his fears as a reasonable man that Burden and Wansley were manifestly intending by violence to…