Clinton v. State
Clinton v. State
Opinion of the Court
1. Though conflicting, the evidence warranted the conviction of assault with intent to murder.
2. There being evidence that the defendant, a negro woman, while a passenger on a street-car, cursed and was guilty of such improper conduct as tended to cause a breach of the peace, and that the conductor was attempting to eject her from the car when she cut him, those provisions of section 927 of the Penal Code (1910) which were given in charge to the jury were applicable to the facts of the case, and this part of the charge was not subject to the exceptions taken.
3. The court’s charge, that in order to convict of assault with intent to murder “all the essentials of murder must exist save alone the killing,”
4. Under the facts of this case it was not reversible error for the court to charge as to implied malice, in the words of section 62 of the Penal Code (1910).
5. Error is assigned because the court, after defining justifiable homicide in practically'the language of section 70 of the Penal Code (1910), instructed the jury that “if a person should kill another under the apprehension or fear that his life is in imminent peril, or that some bodily harm is about to be inflicted upon him amounting to a felony, then the clause relating to justifiable homicide as just read to you would be applicable;” the assignment being that “the last mentioned charge was not full and explicit enough for the jury to understand that if a killing was done under the circumstances enumerated, the slayer would be justifiable.” This assignment was not meritorious, in view of the following charge: “If the defendant was justified in what she did, . . or if you have a reasonable doubt as to whether or not she was justified, or if you believe that she did not commit the offense, . . or if you have a reasonable doubt about it, then she should be acquitted.”
Judgment affirmed.
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