![]() ![]() Memphis City court judge Joseph McCartie dismisses assault-with-intent-to-murder charges against Barbara Jackson, stating that Jackson’s actions prior to the shooting would “tend to lead Mrs Jackson to feel that she was in danger”. Arriving officers found Jackson sprawled in the entrance hall to the den and brought him to Baptist Hospital, taking Mrs. ![]() Around 8.30pm, Mrs Jackson asked a neighbour to call the police. 38-caliber pistol, and fired it once into the floor. After Barbara shot him, Jackson hit her again and took the gun away, then went to his bedroom, got a. 22 pistol, firing one warning shot before shooting him in the chest. He followed her back into the house, where she approached him with the. ![]() Jackson then struck his wife several times, grabbed her by the hair and threw her into a flowerbed. ![]() When she cursed him, he hit her, knocking her onto the hood of his car, which was parked in the driveway. As Jackson himself later testified, he followed his wife out of the house at about 8pm, asking Barbara where she was going. Mrs Jackson, who admits to firing two shots with the pistol (only the second bullet hit Jackson), claims that she used the pistol in self-defence, firing the gun only after extreme provocation. ![]()
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