Manis v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years, and he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant reserved a number of exceptions to the charge of the court, but, in the view we take, there is only one exception that need he noticed, and that is the charge on self-defense, in which the court attempted to group the facts in proof, and to instruct the jury as to their effect. Said charge is as follows: “You are instructed, if you believe from the evidence that deceased had a gun in his hands,…