State v. . Spruill

Defendant complains, and rightly so, that while the law arising upon the evidence given in the case in so far as it relates to his plea of self-defense was declared and explained in the charge to the jury, as it should have been, the court failed to declare and explain the law arising upon the evidence given in the case as it relates to defendant’s legal right to defend his home from attack, and to evict trespassers therefrom.

The right of a person to defend his home from attack is a substantive right, as is the right to evict trespassers from his home. These principles of law have been…