Wright v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, five years.

The indictment alleged that appellant voluntarily and with malice aforethought killed Martin Garlaska by shooting him with a pistol.

The jury rejected appellant’s plea of self-defense and accident and his plea for suspended sentence.

The offense of assault with intent to murder was submitted to the jury, coupled with instructions to acquit appellant of murder if they had a reasonable doubt that the injury inflicted upon the deceased by shooting him with a pistol caused his death.

The undisputed evidence shows that…