Williamson v. State

Citations

• 115 Miss. 716
• 76 So. 637

Syllabus

<p>Homicide. Instructions. Right of accused to arm himself. Self-defense.</p> <p>Where in a prosecution for murder, ihe jury could have found from the evidence, that defendant provoked the difficulty with , the deceased by going into the house and attempting to shoot him, but failing so to do, abandoned the difficulty and fled and while attempting in good faith to escape, was pursued and attacked by deceased and forced to kill him in self-defense, in such case it was error for the court to instruct the jury for the state, that defendant could not arm himself with a deadly weapon with the intention of using it to overcome his adversary if necessary and go upon deceased’s premises and provoke a difficulty with him, slay him and then claim self-defense.</p>