Christopher v. National Brewery Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that \the Act is silent on the procedure to follow when an accused seeks immunity\
• holding a defendant is entitled to either a pre-trial immunity hearing under the Protection of Persons and Property Act or a self-defense jury charge but not both
• concluding defendant, who sought immunity under the Act after he fatally shot the victim, was defaulted into section 16-11-440(C) where the victim was a social guest and rightfully in the defendant’s mother’s apartment
• holding the General Assembly did not intend to require the circuit court \to accept the accused's version of the underlying facts\ in determining a motion for immunity pursuant to the Act
• holding because the defendant was a social guest, he was rightfully in the apartment
• finding subsection 16-11-440(C) of the Act should not have been charged to the jury because \the trial court had denied Appellant immunity\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).