Hutcheson v. State

QUINN, Justice.

The Appellant, Martha Katherine Hutche-son, convicted of murder with a deadly weapon, asks the court whether the evidence sufficiently supports her conviction and whether the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on self-defense and apply the law of concurrent causation to the facts at issue. We answer yes to the first question, no to the others, and affirm the judgment.

FACTS

Appellant was accused of shooting and murdering Jim Hutcheson, her estranged husband. At trial, the evidence revealed that on August 16, 1993, she ventured, in an intoxicated state, to her…