Brown v. State

Benham, Presiding Justice.

Appellant was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the death of a man appellant claimed to have shot in self-defense. On appeal, he contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict, that the trial court erroneously denied a motion for new trial, and that the trial court’s instructions to the jury contained reversible error.

1. The State presented evidence that the unarmed victim was fatally wounded in appellant’s home by any one of the three shotgun blasts fired by appellant that struck the victim in the…