Parkman v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Under an indictment charging a malicious killing, appellant was convicted of murder without malice and his punishment affixed at three years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant presses upon us his contention that his plea of self-defense was so abundantly established by the uncontradicted testimony that the jury was not warranted, as a matter of law,' in rejecting same.

In making this contention, he.recognizes the controlling rule to be that in order for a reviewing court to hold, as a matter of law, that a defendant in a homicide prosecution killed in self-defense, the…