Jones v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction was for murder, the punishment being assessed at eight years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The facts as developed upon the trial, in so far as it is necessary to discuss the assignments of error, will be set out later in the opinion.

The following charge was requested, and refused, to which error is assigned: “If it reasonably appears to the defendant from all the circumstances of this case, viewed from the defendant’s standpoint at the time, that the deceased was about to shoot him with a gun, he was justified in killing deceased, although in fact you may believe…