
    Reid vs. The State of Georgia.
    -1. On the issue of assault and battery, abusive language, without more, will not be a valid legal defence to battery with a rock.
    2. If the person who used the opprobrious words had a knife in his hand, but did not advance towards defendant, or offer to strike or cut or stab with the knife, such conduct will not justify a battery with a rock.
    3. If one makes use of opprobrious epithets, and another replies with . other opprobrious words, the former will not be justified in striking the latter for the use of language provoked by his own similar language.
    4. The use of opprobrious words may or ’may not justify a battery, according to the nature and extent of it; and abusive language will not justify a battery which is excessive and disproportioned to the language used,—all of which the jury should determine. .
    5. The evidence was conflicting, but supported the verdict.
    November 6, 1883.
   Judgment affirmed.

Jackson, Chief Justice.  