Case Name: ALBERT COLE, Appellant, v. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, Respondent
Court: Arizona Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arizona
Decision Date: 1905-03-30
Citations: 9 Ariz. 359
Docket Number: Criminal No. 195
Parties: ALBERT COLE, Appellant, v. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, Respondent.
Judges: SLOAN, J., and DAVIS, J., concur.
Reporter: Arizona Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 359–359

Head Matter:
[Criminal No. 195.]
ALBERT COLE, Appellant, v. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, Respondent.
APPEAL from the District Court of the First Judicial District in and for the County of Cochise. F. M. Doan, Judge.
O. Gibson, and George W. Swain,.for Appellant.
J. H. Kibbey, Attorney-General, for Respondent.
March 30, 1905.

Opinion:
KENT, C. J.
The appellant claims on this appeal that the verdict is contrary to the evidence, the ground of the contention being that the defendant had conclusively established that the homicide was justifiable, because committed in self-defense. The homicide being admitted as proved, the question whether the facts and circumstances justified the act was peeuliarily one for the jury, and was properly submitted to the jury by the court under proper instructions relative to the law of self-defense. That the jury disbelieved the evidence adduced on the part of the defendant in that respect is evident from their verdict, and an examination of the record shows that in that event the verdict was a proper one and sustained by the evidence adduced by the prosecution. The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
SLOAN, J., and DAVIS, J., concur.