Tindall v. State

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 45- years.

Appellant and deceased, John Noel Ains-worth, had engaged in a fight in which deceased whipped appellant. Later, as Ains-worth was driving a truck down the road, appellant entered the truck and shot and killed deceased. Appellant testified that deceased was trying to cut him with a knife at the time he shot deceased. The court submitted the issue of self-defense.

Appellant offered to prove by his wife that within ten minutes after the homicide he (appellant) stated to his wife that he tried to make friends…