Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1886 (Baker v. State)

CLOPTON, J.

— By repeated decisions of this court, it is settled beyond further controversy, that a defendant can not invoke the doctrine of self-defense, if he provoked or brought on the difficulty, or is not reasonably free from fault. He is precluded to avail himself of a necessity arising from a present impending peril of great bodily harm brought on himself by bis own wrongful act.