Snider v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Houston Snider, Jr., was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary.

Appellant admitted the killing but relied on self-defense. The only question presented is whether the appellant should have been permitted to testify that he knew Bennie Lee Andrews, the deceased, carried a gun in his truck.

The killing occurred at the home of appellant and his common-law wife and her children. He had been living there with her for approximately eight years.

The testimony was in conflict but the appellant’s version of the occurrence was that he…