Howard v. State

OPINION

VAIDIK, Judge.

Case Summary

Mark A. Howard challenges his convietion for Battery, a Class A misdemeanor, 1 on two separate grounds. First, he alleges that the trial court erred in denying his Motion for Discharge because 659 days elapsed between the filing of the charges against him and the date of his trial. Second, Howard asserts that the trial court also erred in refusing to give his tendered instruction on self-defense. Because we find that the trial court properly denied Howard's Motion for Discharge and Howard's testimony did not support the giving of an instruction on…