DENNY, Justice.
The defendant excepts to and assigns as error the following excerpt from the charge: "Now, gentlemen, not only have our courts held that ordinarily one is not required to repel a simple assault with a deadly weapon but it has also held that where one is without fault and an attempted assault is being made upon one, such one ought to retreat if there is an opportunity to retreat with safety but where the assault is felonious, that is, where it is done...
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