Philen v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed punishment at ten (10) years’ imprisonment.

On appeal appellant contends tbe trial court erred in overruling his motions to set aside the indictment for lack of a statutory speedy trial; that the court erred in overruling his special requested charge on self-defense and the right to shoot and continue to shoot so long as he was in danger; and that the court erred in admitting into evidence inflammatory and gruesome photographs of the body of the deceased.

The appellant was arrested on July 4, 1979,…