Green v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

BENAVIDES, Judge.

Appellant seeks to set aside his murder conviction because the trial court refused to give an instruction pertaining to a mistake of law defense.1 He claims that the Fort Worth Court of Appeals improperly decided that he was not entitled to the instruction when it held that appellant was relying on his belief that he was acting in self defense instead of on his understanding of a 1873 United States Supreme Court opinion. See Green v. State, 785 S.W.2d 955 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 1990). We will affirm.

At trial, Appellant…