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)
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 opinions
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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