Chapa v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a murder case with punishment fixed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The issues presented for determination render unnecessary an extended statement of the facts.

There was no witness to the killing other than the appellant. It occurred at night.

Appellant admitted the killing and by his testimony claimed that he acted in self-defense from the actual, as well as apparent, attack of the deceased. In support of that defensive theory he testified that deceased made an attack on him with a pistol; that he took the pistol away from the deceased and that,…