56 Ala. App. 698 - Sashington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
February 1986
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rollings v. State · Byrd v. State · Reeves v. State · Johnson v. State · Bryant v. State
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“"The rule to the effect that ordinarily evidence of a previous difficulty between defendant and deceased, or between defendant and a third party related to deceased, or connected with the fatal incident in any homicide case, or a case of assault with intent to murder, is not admissible if there is no evidence of self-defense, or if the evidence shows conclusively that defendant was the aggressor thereby negating self-defense as a matter of law, is not controlling in a case of this kind, wherein defendant's defense is not based upon a claim of self-defense. Even if defendant had claimed that the shooting was in self-defense, this would not preclude him showing that the offense was committed under circumstances reducing it to manslaughter. Reeves v. State, 186 Ala. 14 , 65 So. 160 (1914); Byrd v. State, 257 Ala. 100 , 57 So.2d 388 (1952). It necessarily follows that in a case in which he does not even claim self-defense he should not be precluded from showing the absence of any one or more of the elements constituting each degree of homicide charged in the indictment, including particularly intention and malice. The question of the admissibility of evidence as to a previous difficulty with deceased or others in homicide cases usually arise in connection with claims of self-defense and is usually determinable by considerations relative to such a claim. But this is not always true." Sashington , at 702, 325 So.2d at 209.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To be guilty of murder, one has to have the intention to kill a human being, but it does not have to be the person who is killed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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