Vaughn v. Jonas

Defendant, avowedly in self-defense, shot and severely wounded plaintiff. Thereafter, having partially recovered from his wounds, plaintiff filed this action for damages ; in it he contends that defendant acted not in self-defense but maliciously and without just cause. At the trial plaintiff prevailed; a jury awarded him $5,500 as compensatory and $4,500 as exemplary damages; defendant appeals from the judgment entered on the verdict. As grounds requiring reversal of the judgment defendant urges that the trial court erred to defendant’s prejudice in the admission of certain evidence ; in…