Court Opinion

ID: 7368011
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-27 23:53:35.026109+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:49.409855
License: Public Domain

SAYRE, J.
There are several assignments of error, but they all present but one question, and that is whether on the undisputed facts defendant’s plea of self-defense was entitled to consideration of the court and jury. Defendant and the 14-year-old daughter of deceased had eloped together, their common story being that they were going to Tennessee to marry. They were *10afoot, not making muck progress, and on the third day deceased overtook them. Deceased was armed, and, when he pursued defendant into a close corner, defendant killed him. Defendant had no right to marry this daughter of deceased without the consent of her parents, and when he undertook to elope with her under the circumstances detailed he put himself in the wrong, thereby contributing to the situation out of which arose the necessity to take human life, and forfeiting any claim to complete justification or excuse on the ground of self-defense. — Dabney v. State, 113 Ala. 38, 21 South. 211, 59 Am. St. Rep. 92. We find nothing to the contrary in Oliver v. State, 17 Ala. 587, or the other cases to which we have been referred by counsel for appellant. The judgment must be affirmed.
Affirmed.
Anderson, C. J., and McClellan and Gardner, JJ., concur.