49 Ala. App. 285 - Wall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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1. “"In determining this question the jury is entitled to look at all the testimony offered by the State and the defendant. And even though the evidence of defendant with regard to the elements of self-defense may have been without dispute, its credibility was for the jury. They were not bound to accept it as true and to draw any inference of imminent danger or freedom from fault in bringing on the difficulty. In their discretion they had a right to reject it as they apparently did in the case at bar. Cooley v. State , 233 Ala. 407 , 171 So. 725 (1937); Kemp v. State , 278 Ala. 637 , 179 So.2d 762 (1965)."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 363 So. 2d 1025 - Kontos v. State