Villareal v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

The trial court gave the following charge on self-defense: “If from the evidence you believe the defendant, Pedro Villareal, killed the said Augustine Salas, but you further believe that at the time of so doing the deceased, Augustine Salas or his brother Ignacio Salas, had made or were making an attack on him the said Pedro Villareal, which, from the manner and character of it, and the relative strength of said parties, and the defendant’s knowledge of the character and disposition of the deceased Augustine Salas and his brother, Ignacio Salas, caused…