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Girl stabs man to protect mother
Apparently fearing for her mother's life, a 14-year-old Southwest Side girl stabbed her mother's live-in boyfriend six times as he was choking the woman, police said.
The man, said to be in his late 20s, was rushed to Wilford Hall Medical Center in critical condition Tuesday night.
Police did not expect to bring charges against the girl.
"It looks like self-defense," police Sgt. Michael Oliva said as the girl and her mother were taken to police headquarters for questioning.
The stabbing occurred just before 10 p.m. in the parking lot of the Whitewood Oaks West apartments.
Police said the girl and her mother were attempting to flee their apartment after the intoxicated boyfriend had ransacked it in a fit of rage
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=791514&xld=180
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Apparently fearing for her mother's life, a 14-year-old Southwest Side girl stabbed her mother's live-in boyfriend six times as he was choking the woman, police said.
The man, said to be in his late 20s, was rushed to Wilford Hall Medical Center in critical condition Tuesday night.
Police did not expect to bring charges against the girl.
"It looks like self-defense," police Sgt. Michael Oliva said as the girl and her mother were taken to police headquarters for questioning.
The stabbing occurred just before 10 p.m. in the parking lot of the Whitewood Oaks West apartments.
Police said the girl and her mother were attempting to flee their apartment after the intoxicated boyfriend had ransacked it in a fit of rage
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=791514&xld=180
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Elders learn moves to fend off attackers
2002-08-21
By Jim Killackey
The Oklahoman
Fingernails thrust into an attacker's larynx or eyes, quick slaps to an assailant's ears and car keys or a ballpoint pen slashed across an aggressor's cheek.
Such tactics were demonstrated to senior citizens Tuesday during a self-defense class at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Maneuvers, attitude and awareness were elements voiced by OU police Maj. Ed Welch and Sgt. Terry Schofield, who told an enthusiastic audience to replace squeamishness with confidence if assaulted by a mugger or rapist.
"No one has a moral, civil or legal right to violate your person or property. Let them know you're not someone to be taken advantage of. Try to let the attacker know he's picked the wrong person to mess with," Welch said.
While passive resistance may sometimes be the best defense, Welch said, many alternatives exist -- from crying hysterically or screaming "fire" to attract attention, to going on the counter-offensive with blows to the attacker's face, Adam's apple or groin.
"The goal is to hurt him enough to give yourself a chance to flee," Welch said.
Welch told participants to aim at the "vulnerable" body parts: hit ears, chin or nose with the palm of your hand as hard as you can; strike the middle of the throat with the edge of your hand like a karate chop; stab your fingers into the eyes; and tear at the nose, ears, throat, fingers "or any body part within reach."
Imogene Martin and her husband, Melvin Martin, of Davis traveled 60 miles to the class.
Schofield demonstrated to Imogene Martin, 77, several ways of getting out of holds and attempts by an assailant trying to grab or choke her. Twists of the attacker's thumbs were shown as a relatively simple way to get out of a hold.
The seniors were advised that if they were grabbed from behind, they should kick back hard on the predator's shins or knees, step hard on the toes or instep, or ram the back of their head into the attacker's nose.
Weapons were a brief topic, with Welch and Schofield advising seniors to use keys, pens, fingernail files, credit cards or small cans of mace if necessary.
"You've got to say to yourself: 'I'm not going to be a victim,'" Welch said.
If necessary, just try to walk or run away, he said.
"But you need to know that even the oldest person can put an attacker down, and then hopefully walk away."
But never -- ever -- get into a car with an assailant because your chances of living are less than 3 percent in such cases, Welch said.
Try to walk upright and appear confident, he said.
"The bad guys go after those who appear vulnerable," he said.
"Be mentally prepared for any situation. Know where you are. And remember that every emergency situation is different. Only you can decide which course of action is appropriate."
Welch and Schofield said seniors should use these precautions to keep them out of potentially harmful environments and criminal situations.
Where they live:
Keep doors locked when you're alone, night and day.
Don't leave a door unlocked for someone planning to come home later.
Don't let strangers in for any reason.
Report suspicious activity.
When they're out:
Don't weigh yourself down with a large purse.
Dress for maximum, quick movement.
Don't give information or directions to strangers.
Don't walk alone.
If using public transportation, sit near the bus driver and notify him or her of any problems.
In a vehicle:
Keep doors locked while driving.
Don't pick up hitchhikers
Park in well-lighted areas
Ask for mall security assistance when returning to a vehicle at night.
Check underneath the car and the back seat before getting into a vehicle.
If attacked, the OU police officers said, be realistic about your ability to protect yourself.
"Personal property is never worth your life," Schofield said. "Let a mugger have your purse, but get a good description of your assailant."
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=905554&TP=getarticle
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
One Victim Was Armed - And Quick On The Draw
By KEN BYRON
Courant Staff Writer
August 21 2002
NEW BRITAIN -- When Norman Moore and two others pulled into the car wash Monday night on Corbin Avenue, they might have thought the two men by the Oldsmobile were an easy robbery target.
What they got was a shootout that left Moore, 24, dead in a pool of blood.
Moore's two accomplices fled the scene, police Capt. Michael Sullivan said. One of them, an unidentified man, was still at large on Tuesday, but earlier in the day police arrested Rashad Williams, 27, of East Hartford.
Williams was charged with being an accessory to first-degree assault and conspiracy to commit first-degree assault. He was arraigned in New Britain Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon and held in lieu of $750,000 bail.
As Judge William L. Wollenberg put it, Moore's group "was out looking for business, and they got it."
Police said neither of the two men Moore and his companions tried to rob has been charged. The man who shot and killed Moore was carrying the weapon legally, police said.
"Right now there's nothing to indicate that these two men did anything wrong," Sullivan said.
Police would not identify either man.
Moore, a petty crook from Hartford who served time for stealing $400 from a Hartford grocery store in 1999, is the second person to be shot to death in New Britain this year.
Police said that at about 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Moore, Williams and their companion pulled up to the Mr. Auto Wash, a 24-hour self-operated car wash next to one of New Britain's largest housing projects and less than a quarter of a mile away from another one, Malikowski Circle. They saw two men getting ready to wash their Oldsmobile. Williams, Moore and the unidentified man got out of their car and confronted the two to rob them, police said.
One of Williams' group pulled out a gun, but one of the other two was armed and quick on the draw. Police said several shots were fired. When the shooting stopped, Moore was dead and one of the men being robbed was wounded.
The wounded man was taken to an area hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound to the chest. Sullivan said he was expected to live. Police said the other man was not hurt in the shootout and was at the scene when police arrived.
The green Cadillac that Williams and his companion used to get away was found by police early Tuesday in Hartford. Soon after, a state police trooper pulled Williams over in West Hartford as he was driving west on I-84 in a Toyota. Sullivan said Williams would not tell officers where he was going.
In court, Williams had his bail raised from the $500,000 that had been recommended by State's Attorney Scott Murphy.
Murphy said Williams, who walked into court with the help of a cane, is a flight risk because of his past record and some other pending charges in both Enfield and Wethersfield. Williams is charged with breach of peace and threatening in Enfield Superior Court and is wanted by Wethersfield police, who say he fled in a car after he was pulled over for driving while intoxicated.
In addition, said Murphy, Williams has a past conviction record that includes sale of drugs, racketeering, assault and larceny. His longest jail term was 10 years, of which he served 7? years, for drug and racketeering convictions, said the prosecutor. Williams will be back in court Sept. 24.
Moore's past brushes with the law include arrests in 1998 for breach of peace and threatening. In 1999, he robbed a grocery store in Hartford of $400. Police were led to him by fingerprints on a can of soda that he left on the store's counter. He was sentenced to two years in jail and was released last September, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction said.
Courant Staff Writer Thomas D. Williams contributed to this story.
Copyright 2002, Hartford Courant
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Greg Cunningham rushed to the injured officer's side.
DeKalb County police reported one of their own was shot near a Bank of American in Tucker.
More than a dozen DeKalb County police stormed the Wal-Mart located on Lawrenceville Highway.
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Greg Cunningham's job painting at the Bank of America in Tucker took on a dramatic turn Wednesday when a routine traffic stop turned into a shootout between a police officer and driver.
"I was painting around the ATM machine when I seen the white truck come flying through the parking lot and also the police officer's car," Cunningham told 11Alive's Kevin Rowson in a live interview on 11Alive News at Noon.
Witnesses said the officer first went to the driver's side door, but then started to back up cautiously as the suspect exited the vehicle. The officer yelled at him to get back.
"Well, he didn't obey the officer. He walked up to the police officer and handed him his driver's license and insurance card. The officer asked him to step back. When he asked him that, (the suspect) fired into the ground one round with a small caliber pistol," he said.
Cunningham said he began to rush to the officer's side, "when the second round went off and hit the police officer in the hip, with him going down to the ground."
Witnesses said the injured officer stumbled to passenger side of the police car, putting the car between himself and the shooter. The officer fired back three times as the gunman fled the scene. One shot hit and shattered the back wind shield of the suspect's truck.
The truck was spotted a short time later at a nearby Wal-Mart store. Officers quickly stormed the store, where they surrounded, shot, and killed the suspected gunman.
Demetrius Lee happened by the shootout at the Bank of America as he drove past in his company's recycling truck. As the injured officer tried radioing in for help, Lee and Cunningham took the radio and told the policeman to relax. Cunningham took over in providing information to radio operators about the suspect.
Lee took out a knife and cut the officer's pants to assess the bleeding. Cunningham, seeing the wound, then placed his finger into it to stop the bleeding.
A security guard emerged from the bank, took off his belt, which was wrapped around the officer's leg also to help stop the bleeding.
The men then flagged down a passing fire truck. The firefighters brought over a First Aid kit as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
The injured officer was transported to DeKalb Medical Center where he is listed in stable condition.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.asp?storyid=20652
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Shooting armed invader ruled justifiable killing
By Yolanda Jones
yojones@gomemphis.com
August 20, 2002
The fatal shooting of a home-invasion robbery suspect was ruled a justifiable homicide Monday by investigators.
A Raleigh area homeowner shot the 26-year-old man Sunday after confronting him and a second suspect inside his home, according to the Shelby County Sheriff's Department.
The incident at 4313 Hunters Glen West left (Jerry L. Brooks dead after he was shot by homeowner Jeffrey S. Rushing, said Capt. Steve Crouch.
''This was a home-invasion robbery,'' Crouch said. ''And with this type of robbery we are seeing more and more residents in the county are armed and are protecting themselves.''
He said Rushing's gun was legally registered.
Crouch said Brooks and another suspect identified as Kenneth B. Hill, 31, forced entry into Rushing's home about 1 a.m.
Once inside the home, the suspects, armed with a 9mm semiautomatic weapon, were met by Rushing, who was armed with a .357 handgun.
The suspects did not fire any shots but Rushing, 26, fired several times at the suspects, according to investigators.
Brooks was hit three times and died in the front yard of the house near Egypt-Central and Walter K. Singleton Parkway in the northwest section of the county.
The other suspect fled.
Crouch said his officers were able to identify Hill as the second suspect after the victim picked his picture out of a photo lineup.
Hill has a long arrest record and is a suspect in the March shooting death of a man found in a drainage ditch near Bartlett, Crouch said.
A first-degree murder warrant has been issued for Hill's arrest in that case. He remained at large Monday.
Brooks, of Memphis, had been arrested on drug charges, an assault charge and traffic violations.
He was due in court Thursday on charges of driving with a suspended license and disregarding a red light.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call the Shelby County Sheriff's office at 545-5600 or Crime Stoppers at 528-CASH.
- Yolanda Jones: 529-2380
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_1335749,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Man who attacks mother and infant is stabbed in self-defense (OH)
An 8-month-old boy was hurt seriously yesterday when he was kicked in the head by his father, who was then stabbed by one of the baby's relatives as she defended the baby and his mother during an assault in East Toledo, authorities said.
Artis Layson III was in critical condition at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, police said.
His father, Artis Layson, 19, of 3552 Bluff St., was taken to St. Charles Mercy Hospital. His condition was unavailable last night.
He is charged with one count each of felonious assault and aggravated burglary and will be booked into the Lucas County Jail upon his release from the hospital.
A 17-year-old North Toledo boy, a friend of Mr. Layson, was charged with delinquency in connection with felonious assault. He pleaded innocent during a detention hearing before Magistrate Laura Restivo in Lucas County Juvenile Court. She ordered the teenager held in the county's Juvenile Detention Center until a trial Aug. 29.
The baby's mother, Joy Kenney, 19, was treated at St. Vincent after the assault about 2:15 a.m. at 802 Earl St.
The incident started earlier in the day when Mr. Layson found Ms. Kenney's new boyfriend at her residence watching the baby. He and the boyfriend quarreled, and Ms. Kenney took the baby to her cousin's house on Earl.
When the cousin, Kenyatta McElya, and another cousin returned to the Earl address, they found the 17-year-old in the backyard trying to get inside the house. They yelled for him to leave. Detective Dan Navarre said Mr. Layson asked the teenager to get Ms. Kenney out of the residence.
The cousins got Ms. Kenney and the baby from the house to a car in front of the residence. Mr. Layson and the teenager kicked out the car windows, reached inside, and assaulted Ms. Ken|ney and the baby, the detective said.
Ms. McElya went inside the house, grabbed a steak knife, and stabbed Mr. Layson in the back. He then chased Ms. Kenney into the house, where he punched her as she held their son, police said.
Mr. Layson fled and collapsed on the front yard. The teenager picked him up and took him to 427 Spieker Terrace. Mr. Layson held a woman at the Spieker residence until the detective broke a window. The woman then broke free and opened the door for police.
Mr. Layson was found in a rear bedroom, and the teenager was under the bed. Ms. McElya will not be charged in the stabbing because she was defending Ms. Kenney and the baby, police said.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020821&Category=NEWS03&ArtNo=208210015&Ref=AR
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
BY AMY MAYRON
Pioneer Press
A burglar learned Monday night not to mess with a decorated World War II veteran who fought at Iwo Jima.
Harvey Keefe, who turns 80 in less than two weeks, shot a burglar in the arm as the man wiggled the doorknob to get into his locked bedroom in his North Minneapolis home directly across the street from Theodore Wirth Park.
The retired boilermaker saw a lot more action than that while serving as a young Marine fighting the Japanese at Iwo Jima and Guam. He received two Purple Hearts for his service.
Keefe didn't think twice Monday when he was awakened by the loud slam of his back door being kicked in. He listened for maybe a minute as someone shuffled through his bungalow home after 11 p.m. on the 2600 block of Vincent Avenue North. He grabbed his .38-special handgun that he has had since the 1950s and keeps on his bedside table for protection.
As the burglar fumbled with the doorknob to his bedroom door, which was locked with a chain, Keefe walked to the door, lifted the muzzle up - almost touching it - and fired. The bullet went straight through. Police told him later that he hit the man in the arm.
"There was blood on the walls, in the bathroom and a trail leading out the back of the house," he said Tuesday as insurance company workers were installing a new back door and fixing his porch screen door. They had steam-cleaned his carpeting and wiped the walls earlier that day.
Minneapolis police followed the trail of blood for a few blocks and took Jimmie Lee Emerson, 48, into custody. He was recovering Tuesday at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale from the gunshot wound, but was also under arrest on suspicion of burglary.
Police took Keefe's weapon as evidence, but they are not investigating him for any wrongdoing, said police spokeswoman Cyndi Barrington.
Keefe has lived in the Willard-Hay neighborhood since the 1960s. The area has struggled with burglaries, he said. His home was broken into 10 years ago, and items were taken from a safe he had in his bedroom.
The positioning of the homes across from the park could make them more vulnerable, as burglars can disappear quickly and there are no neighbors across the street to keep an eye out for suspicious activity, he said.
Keefe, who seemed fairly nonchalant Tuesday about the incident, has two children, one in Eden Prairie and another in Backus, Minn.
"They're all shook up over it," he said.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/3904631.htm
Amy Mayron can be reached at amayron@pioneerpress.com or (612) 338-6872.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
by Robert A. Waters
August 21, 2002
KeepAndBearArms.com -- Ten years ago, in the early morning of August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew howled into south Florida. Wind gusts were measured at 175 miles per hour--then the measuring instruments were blown away. The storm scored a direct hit on Homestead and Florida City, demolishing 25,000 homes and damaging another 100,000. Homestead Air Force Base was obliterated and never rebuilt. 700,000 people evacuated. Many just kept going since there was nothing to return to.
But others were determined to save what was left of their homes and property.
George Brown, a veteran, had never seen anything like it. But at least a shell was left of what used to be his home. He and his family, isolated from the outside world, began to gather their few remaining possessions. They placed their goods inside the roofless, windowless walls of their home and determined to survive until help came.
Marjorie Barber returned to her demolished home in the Goldcoaster Mobile Home RV Park. The entire park had been leveled. She enlisted the aid of her brother and set up a tent above the rubble. They salvaged what few possessions they could find, eating very little and drinking poison-tasting water. Little did they know that they would stay there for weeks, waiting for assistance.
Hastily assembled emergency crews were unable to cope with the destruction. An exasperated Kate Hale, the Dade County Emergency Management Director, called a news conference that was carried on national television. "Where the hell's the cavalry on this one?" she asked. Her outrage at the slow response of the Federal government to aid the victims was the catalyst to finally get things moving.
But it still took weeks, sometimes even months, for assistance to reach into the wasteland that was now south Florida. Those who wished to save their property and belongings were on their own.
Like vultures, the looters came. They moved from wrecked house to wrecked house, stealing anything of value. In some cases, the thieves turned violent, assaulting those who attempted to stop them.
But in many other instances, they met armed homeowners.
George Brown kept his trusty shotgun handy. According to a recent article in the St. Petersburg Times, "when Brown spotted some thieves, he chased them away at gunpoint. 'They didn't want to talk to Mr. Twelve Gauge,' he said."
Marjorie Barber and her brother developed an impromptu strategy for safeguarding the few possessions left on their property. One slept while the other stayed awake, always with a gun at the ready. In fact, Marjorie Barber became a symbol of the survivors when a photograph of the gritty homeowner holding her shotgun was published in hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Eventually, National Geographic documented the strong-willed determination of the survivors by publishing the photograph.
Barber remembers one night when looters dropped by. She threatened to shoot them and they fled. "It gets to the point," she said, "when you've had everything taken away from you already, and then somebody comes in...and they want to take from you what little you have left, it brings out an instinct in you that you don't even know is there."
It was a scene that played itself out over and over. Many moved into tent cities for protection. The "cities" were patrolled and guarded by citizens with guns. In some instances, people remained there for months until the National Guard finally took control.
What would have happened to the survivors had they not had guns?
Picture September 11 on a city-wide scale.
Civilization makes no guarantees.
Liberty City. Watts. The Rodney King riots. The images burn in our minds. Gutted buildings, flames rising hundreds of feet in the air, automobiles shattered and overturned like toy cars. And on those same streets, roaming bands of thugs brutally beating and killing the unprotected.
Ten years ago, in Dade County, Americans saw first-hand the fragility of order.
Anyone who would disarm us would leave victims defenseless in the face of another such disaster.
Robert A. Waters' new book, Gun Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives with Firearms, is available at http://www.robertwaters.net or through your local book store. Other articles from Mr. Waters can be read in his archives here: http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/Waters.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Intruder found under daughter's bed
By Amy Herdy
Denver Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - The dog's growling woke them first. In the master bedroom of the home, Duchess, a 4-year-old Labrador mix, refused to be placated, and soon her rumbles pitched to desperate snarls.
As the father awoke, a sudden crash sounded down the hall, leading him to a horrifying discovery: The long, bare legs of a man, hanging over the edge of the bed where his 9-year-old daughter slept.
"I grabbed him by the throat with one arm, and grabbed my daughter and shoved her toward my wife" in the hall, who ran with her to another room and called 911, said the father, as he recalled the early Sunday morning incident. The Denver Post is not naming him in order to protect his daughter's identity.
The suspect, wearing only a T-shirt, began to struggle, and the two men grappled. The father, a former Marine, was able to subdue the man until sheriff's deputies arrived.
"I grabbed him by the throat and suffocated him until he stopped fighting," he said Tuesday.
Arapahoe County sheriff's deputies have charged the intruder, identified as 22-year-old Erik Scott O'Connell of Conifer, with first-degree burglary, two counts of criminal intent of sexual assault on a child, theft and assault in the incident, which happened about 2 a.m. Sunday at a Centennial home near Arapahoe High School.
Sheriff Grayson Robinson said O'Connell, who had been at a party across the street from the home Saturday night, had been drinking. O'Connell climbed into an unlocked window in the downstairs den, Robinson said, and stole the wife's billfold from the kitchen counter before climbing the stairs and entering the girl's bedroom, where he took off his clothes and attempted to assault the child.
The girl, who was taken to a hospital after the incident, was not injured.
O'Connell has refused to cooperate with investigators, Robinson said. He never spoke during Sunday morning's incident, the father said, and "trying to figure out why it happened" still torments him.
"I could never imagine anything like this could happen to my home, my family, my children," he said.
State records show O'Connell, who is being held on $50,000 bond, pleaded guilty to felony theft charges in August 2001, and was sentenced to two years probation and community service.
The sheriff's office plans to ask for a higher bond on Wednesday, Robinson said, and may also upgrade the assault charge, which stemmed from O'Connell's battle with the father.
Meanwhile, the family has changed the locks on their home and is contemplating moving. The father said his daughter is "doing remarkably well." He and his wife, he said, are not.
"You can imagine it being worse ...," he said, then grimaced and walked away.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%7E53%7E810022,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878