Judgment of County Court, Bronx County, convicting defendant of crime of manslaughter in the first degree, unanimously reversed upon the law, and a new trial ordered.
The defendant claimed that his acts were justified as in self-defense. Upon a trial for homicide a defendant, claiming that he acted in self-defense, "may prove that the general reputation of the deceased was that of a quarrelsome, vindictive or violent man and that such reputation had come to his knowledge...
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