What is the test for a defendant to justify a plea of self-defense under the plea of homicide?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Williams, 142 Cal.Rptr. 704, 75 Cal.App.3d 731 (Cal. App. 1977):
In order to justify a homicide under the plea of self-defense it must appear not only that the defendant actually believed himself in deadly peril, but that as a reasonable man he had sufficient grounds for his belief. (People v. Glover (1903) 141 Cal. 233, 239, 74 P. 745; and People v. Ortiz (1923) 63 Cal.App. 662, 668, 219 P. 1024.)
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