Donald James Burd v. State

OPINION

REBECA HUDDLE, Justice.

Appellant Donald Burd appeals a judgment convicting him of deadly conduct. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 22.05(b)(2) (West 2009). Burd was indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The jury acquitted him of that charge but found him guilty of the lesser included offense of deadly conduct.

Burd raises two issues on appeal; both relate to the trial court’s charge. First, he contends he was egregiously harmed by the trial court’s failure to include an instruction applying the law of self-defense to the lesser included offense of deadly conduct. He argues that…