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- Title: Sonny Chambers v. State Alabama
- Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
- Release Date : January 22, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The following charges were refused to defendant: 'I-A. The Court charges the jury that if, after a consideration of the evidence in this case and based upon such evidence,
you have a reasonable doubt as to whether or not the defendant acted upon a well grounded, honest and reasonable belief that
it was necessary to cut to save himself from great bodily harm or death, or that he cut before an impending necessity arose,
then this is a doubt as would authorize the acquittal.' '4. I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that if you believe from
the evidence that the deceased made a sudden unprovoked murderous attack upon the defendant, deceased at the time being armed
with a deadly weapon and in the act of effectuating upon the defendant his murderous purpose, then, I charge you, the defendant
was under no duty to retreat but had the right to stand his ground and kill his assailant.' '7. If the jury find from the
evidence that the conduct of the deceased, S. B. Sanders, was such as to reasonably lead the defendant to believe that the
deceased was about to inflict some great bodily harm on his person, and that the defendant, acting on such reasonable belief
of great bodily harm, cut the deceased and killed him, then the jury should acquit.' MERRILL, Justice. Appellant was tried
in the Circuit Court of Russell County under an indictment charging first degree murder. He was convicted of second degree
murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. From the judgment of conviction and the judgment overruling his motion for a new
trial, he appeals.