Williams v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

— It is urged by appellant in his motion for rehearing that the court’s definition of murder was incomplete. The definition follows the exact language of the present statute. Art. 1256, amended by the 40th Leg. (1927), page 412, Ch. 274. Section 1 (Vernon’s Ann. P. C., Art. 1256). It was not necessary for the court in such definition to explain when a killing would be excused or justified. He pertinently told the jury if the killing was in self-defense defendant could not be convicted. In other words, a killing occurring under such circumstances would be…