State v. Drew

How courts have described this case

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

• “[S]elf-defense is available to the accused who accidentally kills his assailant while properly exerting force to assure his own safety.”
• “the accidental discharge of a gun, the use of which was not justified under the circumstances, is not a defense to manslaughter when the killing occurred upon a sudden quarrel”
• “[S]elf-defense is available to the accused who accidentally kills his assailant while properly exerting force to assure his own safety.”
• “[S]elf-defense is available to the accused who accidentally kills his assailant while properly exerting force to assure his own safety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).