Beard v. United States

Beard v. United States
Beard v. United States
	Supreme Court of the United States
Submitted March 13, 1895; Decided May 27, 1895
Full case name	Babe Beard v. United States
Citations	158 U.S. 550 (more) 15 S. Ct. 962; 39 L. Ed. 1086; 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2278
Court membership
	Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices Stephen J. Field · John M. Harlan; Horace Gray · David J. Brewer; Henry B. Brown · George Shiras Jr.; Howell E. Jackson · Edward D. White
Case opinion
Majority	Harlan, joined by unanimous

Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895), is a United States Supreme Court case in which self-defense in a homicide case was found not to require a duty to retreat.[1]^:551

References

Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,

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[CL-1] Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,