Flores, Rene

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

PD-0904-06

RENE FLORES, Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON DISCRETIONARY REVIEW OF CASE 06-05-00023-CR OF THE

SIXTH COURT OF APPEALS,

HARRIS COUNTY.

Womack, j., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

Flores's only complaint on the appeal from his conviction for murder was that the court's charge to the jury erroneously limited the jury's consideration of his defense of self-defense by including an instruction on the law of provocation ("The use of force against another [in self-defense] is not justified if the actor provoked the other's use or attempted…