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Conner V. State, 361 So.2d 774 (Fla. 4th Dist. Ct. App. 1978), Cert. Denied, 368 So. 2d 1364, Timothy C. Herbert
Conner V. State, 361 So.2d 774 (Fla. 4th Dist. Ct. App. 1978), Cert. Denied, 368 So. 2d 1364, Timothy C. Herbert
Florida State University Law Review
Criminal Law-SELF-DEFENSE-RETREAT-INSTRUCTION ON DEFENSE OF HOME NEED NOT BE GIVEN WHERE VICTIM AND ACCUSED ARE MEMBERS OF SAME HOUSEHOLD
Southern Violence-Regional Problem Or National Nemesis?: Legal Attitudes Toward Southern Homicide In Historical Perspective, Richard M. Brown
Southern Violence-Regional Problem Or National Nemesis?: Legal Attitudes Toward Southern Homicide In Historical Perspective, Richard M. Brown
Vanderbilt Law Review
Both inside and outside the South, was the law a cause of the high incidence of homicide, or was it an effect? It was probably more effect than cause, for despite the anti-homicide rigor of its supreme court, on the whole the incidence of killing in Alabama seems to have been no lower than elsewhere in the South. Thus, the conservative Alabama court apparently failed to stem not only the legal trend of the Americanization of the common law of homicide but also the trend of blood-letting in Alabama. In one way this is not surprising, for after all, the …