Smith v. State

On Sunday before the 11th day of September, 1931, the defendant, Bob Smith, killed Claude De Lee, by shooting him with a gun or by striking him with a gun, or by shooting him and striking him with a gun. The evidence for the state tended to make out a case of murder, and that for the defendant that the killing was done in self-defense. Upon all questions involved in the plea of self-defense the evidence was in sharp conflict. That for the state tending to prove that the defendant was. not free from fault in bringing on the fatal difficulty, and that for defendant that he was free from fault…