Lawlor v. People

Citations

• 74 Ill. 228

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal law—act when justified as self-defense. To justify one in shooting at another in self-defense, it is essential that his apprehension of serious or great bodily injury be reasonable. It is not proper to say in an instruction, if he had any such apprehensions.</p> <p>2. The use of the words “serious bodily injury,” instead of the words “ great bodily harm,” employed in the statute, in instructing the jury as to the law of self-defense, will'not render the instruction objectionable or erroneous.</p>