26 Mo. App. 8 - State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The defendant's evidence did not differ very much from that of the state, except that it tended to show that Huggins struck the defendant with a chair before the defendant shot him the first time. Upon the hypothesis of the defendant's evidence, we could not say that the verdict of the jury is unwarranted; for we are not prepared to say, as matter of law, that a man is entitled to defend himself, with a pistol, against another man, who, in a quarrel, strikes him with a chair.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cook