Mattison v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at two years 'confinement in the penitentiary.

The first ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court committed error in paragraphs eighteen; nineteen and twenty of his charge in submitting the law of self-defense in sai-d paragraphs, because it was on am issue not raised by the evidence, and was calculated to mislead and confuse the minds of the jury, and prejudice and injure the rights of defendant in this, to wit: “The only defense relied om by defendant was the defense of an…