Sternlight v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of murder; the punishment is imprisonment for 10 years.

The appellant complains of (1) the court’s charge on self-defense, (2) the admission in evidence of bloody photographs of the deceased’s body, (3) the prosecutor’s alleged improper interrogation of a character witness, and (4) the court’s refusal of a mistrial after the prosecutor asked a question alleged to be improper.

The appellant’s complaint about the court’s charge concerns the law of self-defense under V.T.C.A. Penal Code, sec. 9.31 and Sec. 9.32, which…