This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Where the defendant has introduced evidence tending to show self-defense in a homicide case, he may then show the general bad character of the deceased as that of a dangerous man; but the evidence must be confined to the general reputation of the deceased; he cannot show it by specific acts.48
41 Gifford vs. People, 148 Ill., 173. 42 Gifford vs. People, 148 Ill., 173;
State vs. Bryan, 34 Kan., 63. 43 Walsh vs. People, 65 Ill., 64;
Aiken vs. People, 183 Ill., 215. 44 Aneals vs. People, 134 Ill., 415;
Wagner vs. State, 107 Ind., 71.
45 Aiken vs. People, 183 Ill., 215, McCarthy vs. People, 31 Ill., 231 46 State' vs. Hull, 18 R. I., 207;
State vs. Lapage, 57 N. H, 245;
People vs. Fair, 43 Cal., 137. 47 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 3155.
 
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