Supreme Court of Missouri October 15, 1890 (State v. Mullins)

Black, J.

The defendant prosecutes this appeal from a conviction of manslaughter in the second degree, had upon an indictment for murder.' The defendant, it is conceded by the evidence, shot and killed Henry Thatcher. The defense is justifiable homicide in self-defense.

The deceased was .a negro, and the tenant of the defendant, residing in a house on the defendant’s farm.