Pittman v. Stephens

GRISSOM, Justice.

Cecil Stephens instituted this suit against Joe Pittman to recover damages resulting from an alleged unlawful assault by Pittman in which Pittman shot Stephens in the chest with a pistol. The defendant, Pittman, answered, among other things, that Stephens made an attack upon him and threatened to kill him and that in shooting plaintiff he acted in self-defense. In an*315■swer to issues submitted, the jury found that defendant committed an assault upon plaintiff; that plaintiff sustained injuries; that as a result of the assault plaintiff’s damages for medicine and doctor’s bills…