Dickson v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with punishment assessed at 40 years.

In his first three grounds of error appellant complains that the trial court erred in failing to charge on the issues of murder without malice, aggravated assault and self-defense, despite timely presented special requested charges.

The appellant was identified, as one of two men who entered the cab of the deceased, Lorraine Tones, sometime between 3 and 4 a. m. on June 29, 1968, near the Continental Bus Station in the city of Houston. Approximately fifteen minutes later the…