Gavin Heath Gilbert v. State

In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana No. 06-18-00152-CR GAVIN HEATH GILBERT, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 8th District Court Hopkins County, Texas Trial Court No. 1826694 Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ. Opinion by Justice Stevens OPINION A Hopkins County jury rejected Gavin Heath Gilbert’s claim that he acted in self-defense and convicted him of the murder 1 of Tyrone Phelps. 2 Based on the jury’s verdict, Gilbert was assessed a punishment of fifty-five years’ imprisonment. On appeal, Gilbert contends that there…