idegenszavak , 6 days ago

YTA: IANAL but Hammurabi 202 says:

202 If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

It's clear that your elder were in higher rank, but you just killed the scammer, while sixty blows with an ox-whip would be the correct punishment for his attack.

About the traveler's lies, Hammurabi 107 can be related, while it's not the exact case, it shows what repercussion a cheater like him should get:

107 If the merchant cheat the agent, in that as the latter has returned to him all that had been given him, but the merchant denies the receipt of what had been returned to him, then shall this agent convict the merchant before God and the judges, and if he still deny receiving what the agent had given him shall pay six times the sum to the agent.

So killing him was too much, you just had to beat him a bit and took most of his belongings. Your deeds were really uncivilized and I hope your gods will punish you with at least 2 years of drought.