Watson v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— After charging on self-defense in paragraph eight of his charge, the trial court followed same, apparently without request therefor, with a charge in paragraph nine upon self-defense against an attack less than deadly, —coupling paragraphs eight and nine by saying:

“You are instructed as part of the law of self-defense * * * that if you believe that the defendant shot J. D. Sheen as a means of self-defense, as that term is described in this paragraph of the charge, believing at the time he did so that he was in danger of receiving an unlawful injury…