Herring v. State

Citations

• 87 Miss. 628
• 40 So. 230

Syllabus

<p>Homicide. .Self-defense.</p> <p>Although a defendant armed himself for the purpose of provoking, and did provoke, the difficulty in which he killed his adversary, he may show that the killing was not in pursuance of the previous malicious purpose to kill with which his weapon was procured; ' that he abandoned such purpose, was seeking to retreat from the conflict, and thereafter had -to kill in self-defense.</p>