Gorbey v. United States

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• ‘Whether the use of such weapon is justified, must depend upon the fact whether the party was in imminent peril of receiving great bodily harm, or had reasonable ground to so believe, and that such act was necessary to prevent the same.”
• “Whether the use of [a deadly] weapon is justified, must depend upon the fact whether the party was in imminent peril of receiving great bodily harm, or had reasonable ground to so believe, and that such act was necessary to prevent the same.” (quoting Davis v. People, 88 Ill. 350 (1878)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).