McGee v. State

Because I cannot agree under Saxton’s standard of review that reasonable jurors could have found “against appellant on the self-defense issue beyond a reasonable doubt,” I must dissent. In my opinion, this record reveals a classic ease of self-defense under the court’s charge which read:

Upon the law of self defense, you are instructed that a person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other person’s use or attempted use of unlawful force.

A person is justified in using deadly…