Armstrong v. State

OPINION

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of carrying a handgun. The jury assessed punishment at one year’s confinement, probated.

Appellant now contends the court erred in refusing to submit the defense of necessity for consideration by the jury.

Appellant had testified that she had been raped two weeks before the offense by a man who threatened her with death if she reported the rape, that she had seen the rapist one week before the offense and turned him in to the police with the aid of the weapon she kept at her home, that the rapist made bail, that he subsequently intimidated…