Smoot v. Somerville

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• opining that the defendant, who carried a revolver to a saloon because he “was expecting” that he would encounter his victim there, did not act reasonably when he walked up to the victim and shot him because “[r]eady means of escape were at hand ... and no danger was to be apprehended”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).