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Show I CHARGE GIVEN TO HI1 JURY How Slaying of Oklahoma Oil Magnate May Be Justified is Told IRDMOKB, Okln- March IT. The hare of Judge Thorns W. Champion Cham-pion to Ihe Jury In the trial ol Clara i;mith Hamon for the alleged murder W of Colbriel Jake I Humon eoaslMtl l of thirty-four r.rticlt-s In seventeen typewritten page The court churged the Jury on homl-, homl-, de und mannlautrhter in the firt and second degrees, and brought out tho differrnt point of justification, WHEN IT'S EXCUSASL1 Article eleen follows: jg - You are Instructed. g.-ntloman of !,'8. th Jury that homicide la xmsable when committed hy accident or mis- $ fortune or In doing any lawful act y lawful means with usual and I nary caution and without any unlaw-U unlaw-U Intent." "If the act was committed l dent or by misfortune or In the heat Of passion' or upon any sudden or sufficient suf-ficient provocation or upon a sudden ;f combat, provided that no undue ld- S vantage is token nor any dang, rous A Weapon Uted and that the killing Ifl K not done In a cruel or unusual man- H ncr." AND WHEN JUSTIFIABLE, i I Paragraph twelve states: You are further Instructed, jentle-if jentle-if men of the Jury, that liomiride is jus- I tifiablc when committed by any per son in the following case "First, when resisting &U '. nipt to murder a person or to commit any f l-ony l-ony upon such person. "Second, when committed In Unlawful Un-lawful defense of such person or when there is :i reasonable ground to apprehend appre-hend a design to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury and Imminent danger of such design being Rccompllshed b the person killed The court continued CLARA'S DEI ENS1 "In this case, the defendant, Clara Smith Hnmon, In support of her plea of not guilty, claims a justlfli Ltlon for sold homicide, that she acted In defense of her person: that that the defendant, Clara Smith Hamon, pleads that she did (he killing but thai U o was done to prevent the deceased from killing her or doing her serious bodily harm It Is the right of every person to act in defense of her own person, whether she is assailed In such Ii way to make it reasonably appear that her life at the tinir was In Imminent Immi-nent danger or that she was in Imminent Immi-nent danger of serious personal in-jury. in-jury. You are Instructed that before a person can Justify a killing upon the plea that she acted in self-defense, there must not only have existed at the time of the killing reasonable ground to apprehend 0 design on the part of the deceased to either take the life of the defendant or to do her some great personal injury, hut In addition ad-dition thereto. It must reasonably have appeared to the defendant that there was imminent danger of such design being carried out." WORTn OF EVIDENCE "You are hereby Instructed that self-defense under the law Is defensive defen-sive and not an offensive act and therefore a pereon accused of homicide homi-cide can avail herself of the plea of self-defense In order to justify the killing, th Jury must believe that It reasonably appeared to the defendant at the time she firer the fatal shot. You are fu-ther instructed th a! the prosecution has sought o prove i ' r tain statements which It Is claimed the deceased made a short time prior i. h's death as regarding the de taxation taxa-tion and even if you should find St ite-menta ite-menta were made, and under conditions condi-tions which render them admissible, you are to determine as to whether or not the deceased was correctly understood under-stood by the witnesses and -what he said was correctly detailed hy them and should you find all these facts for the pr-'.-e utlon von n ri hound to be lieve the farts stated In such dying dnrlai attons true, hut you should weigh such statements and consider them together With all other evidence, IF DOUBT EXISTS. "if you find the defendant guilty of the murder as charged. It is your duty to assess her punishment at death or by Imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary for life. "It you have reasonable doubt ofj the guilt of the defendant, then you I Will n.ciult her. but In the event you do not entertain a leasonnble doubt of the defendant s guilt as to any one or more of the offenses herein submitted submit-ted to you, then yon will return your Verdict of guilty as to such offense of, which you do not enteraln a reason-1 ulile doubt yet whatever doubt may1 be entertained by you such doubt must ! be resolved in favor of the defendant "i |