Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez

OPINION

MEYERS, JOHNSON, ALCALA, and NEWELL, JJ., joined.

Appellant, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez Elizondo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent, while off duty, shot and killed Fermín Limón Sr. Elizondo claimed *188self-defense, but the jury convicted him of murder, and he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. The Thirteenth Court of Appeals affirmed Elizondo’s conviction. Elizondo petitioned this Court to review the appellate court’s analysis .of the alleged jury-charge errors.1 We conclude that the court of appeals erred by upholding the trial court’s inclusion of a…