Jackson v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Felix Jackson, was convicted of simple battery. On appeal he asserts only the general grounds.

On April 8, 1986, Jackson went to the residence of his ex-wife. It is undisputed that he and she engaged in an argument in her bedroom, during which Jackson struck his ex-wife. He claimed that he struck her once in self-defense, after she had slapped him several times, but the ex-wife claimed that Jackson struck her without such provocation. In any event, the fight was stopped in the early rounds when their daughter appeared on the scene and shot at her father…