Hamel v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

KELLER, Judge.

A jury convicted appellant of aggravated assault and assessed punishment at two years confinement, probated. The Court of Appeals remanded for a new punishment hearing after finding error in the jury charge at the punishment phase of the trial. We granted review to consider the Court of Appeals’ determination that the trial court prop erly denied appellant’s requested instructions on self-defense and defense of a third person. We reverse.

On July 31, 1992, appellant’s sister, Mary Glissen, called appellant and told him she…