Moore v. Fowle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding defendant was “not pursued nor further threatened,” was “not in danger of any immediate injury, nor threatened with any,” and was thus not entitled to resort to force when the deceased “stood still” and “said nothing”
• “[M]anslaughter, when voluntary, arises from the sudden heat of the passions . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).