Bennett v. State

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Donald Whitt Bennett was convicted of murder and sentenced to ten years confinement. Because we find that his right of self-defense as presented to the jury in the *397charge was improperly limited by an inapplicable charge on the law of defense of a third person, we reverse the judgment and remand the cause for a new trial.

Bennett was disturbed at the relationship between his eighteen year old daughter and her boyfriend, Mark Rattan. He went to Rattan’s home, and by pointing a gun in his face, attempted to scare him into terminating the relationship. Tom DeRushia and a…