Singleton v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and awarded five years in the penitentiary.

The question presented for revision is the exceptions to the court’s charge on self-defense and refusal to give special requested instructions on the same subject. In paragraph 11 of the charge the court gave an abstract definition of self-defense. Section 12 of the court’s charge undertakes to submit that issue. The court therein instructed the jury that if they believed defendant killed deceased, but further believed at the time of so doing the deceased had made, or was about to…