Gettings v. State

CARR, Judge.

This appeal is based on a judgment of conviction in the lower court of murder in the second degree.

The evidence in many particulars is not in conflict, in other phases an irreconcilable contradiction appears.

In its last and final analysis the prima factual issue revolves around the inquiry of whether or not the act of the appellant was justified or excusable under the doctrine of self-defense, which he claimed.

It is without dispute in the evidence that a party had gathered at the home of the deceased for a Saturday night dance. Among the number was a soldier in uniform. In the…