Kuykendall v. Edmondson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County; W. W. Haralson, Judge. .Action by Mary M. Edmondson against C. Kuykendall. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear. The following charges were refused to the defendant: (4) The fact that the defendant did not retreat was not a fighting willfully, wantonly, and intentionally.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County; W. W. Haralson, Judge. .Action by Mary M. Edmondson against C. Kuykendall. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear. The following charges were refused to the defendant: (4) The fact that the defendant did not retreat was not a fighting willfully, wantonly, and intentionally. (5) The fact, if it be a fact, that the defendant did not retreat from the edge of the porch behind the corner of the room, cannot be looked to as a circumstance tending’ to contradict the defendant’s evidence that he shot in self-defense.…
1Opinion of the CourtMeCLELLAN, J.
On July 20, 1915, Kuykendall killed plaintiff’s (appellee’s) intestate, Edmondson, by shooting him with a shotgun. The action is for damages under the homicide statute (Code, § 2486). The defendant (appellant) sought to justify himself by recourse to the doctrine of self-defense. These men had entertained for each other a strong hostility during a long period next preceding the tragedy. Their difference arose over a dispute with reference to a line dividing their farms. They had either fought or threatened to- fight on several occasions; and direful threats, each toward the other, are…
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