69 Ala. 229
Decided December 15, 1881
Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1881-12-15
Tried before lion. T. M. Arrington. At the February Term, 1881, of said court, the defendant was indicted for an assault upon one Lorenzo Phillips, with the intent to murder or maim him; and the cause was tried on the jilea of not guilty. On the trial, the State examined said Phillips as a witness, who testified that “within twelve months before the indictment was found, and in Montgomery county, he was clerking in a store, when defendant came in and asked for his account.
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1898
3 state decisions
Relies on State v. Starr · Adams v. People
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1881-12-15
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¶1Anyone who brings-on, or provokes a personal rencontre, thereby disables himself to rely on the plea, that the blow he struck in such provoked difficulty was inflicted in self-defense. — 1 Bish. Cr. Law, § 844; State v. Neeley, 20 Iowa, 108; Adams v. People, 47 Ill. 376; State v. Starr, 38 Mo. 270. See, also, authorities on. brief of the Attorney-General.
¶2Affirmed.