MILLER, Justice.
Lawrence James Jones was convicted of second degree murder for the homicide of Lawyer Cook and sentenced to twenty years' confinement in the penitentiary.
The trial was had before a jury, and accused undertook to show that the killing was (a) by misadventure and accidental, or (b) done in self-defense.
The court instructed the jury upon the theory of accidental killing but refused to give any instruction embodying the law of self-defense...
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