Williams v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, his punishment being assessed at six years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. After giving some general definitions in regard to self-defense, the court thus applied the law:

“If you find from the evidence that defendant shot and killed John Armstrong for the purpose of preventing him from killing or doing serious bodily injury to Doby Williams and defendant, or either of them, and that it was necessary or reasonably appeared to defendant at the time to be necessary to kill John Armstrong in order to prevent him…