Case Name: Wheeler v. Whitney
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1879-06
Citations: 59 N.H. 197
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wheeler v. Whitney.
Judges: Allen, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 197–197

Head Matter:
Wheeler v. Whitney.
In trespass for an assault, a justification of the assault in self-defence is not available under the general issue.
Trespass, for an assault and battery. Plea, the general issue. The court gave the jury certain instructions on the subject of self-defence, to which the defendant excepted.
.Blair Burleigh and Pike Blodgett, for the defendant.
Carpenter and Fling, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
Foster, J.
Under the pleadings in this case, the exception to the instructions of the court cannot be sustained. The justification of self-defence was not available. Jewett v. Goodall, 19 N. H. 562.
Exception overruled.
Allen, J., did not sit: the others concurred.