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103 Miss. 821

Horn v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1912

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1912-10-15

Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. C. Horn was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.

Decided 1912-10-15

Smith, C. J.

¶1(dissenting).

¶2My conception of the facts in tMs ease, as disclosed by the record, is entirely different from that of my brethren. There were only three eyewitnesses to the actual homicide — appellant himself, his companion Ryan, and Ralph Romano. According to the testimony of appellant and Ryan, he (appellant) acted in self-defense. Accord*824ing to the testimony of Romano, he attacked deceased without provocation, and struck him at a time when deceased was doing nothing which indicated in the remotest degree that he purposed to assault appellant.

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