Anderson v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

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

1. Charging on self-defense, the court instructed the jury, among other things, as follows: “If from the evidence you believe the defendant killed the said one Tete,’ a Mexican, _ but further believe that at the time of so doing the deceased had made an attack on him which, from the manner and character of it and the relative strength of the parties and the defendant’s knowledge of the character and disposition of the deceased, caused…