[DOWNLOAD] "Willie Earl Mccuin v. State Texas" by 078 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals No. 48 * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Willie Earl Mccuin v. State Texas
Author : 078 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals No. 48
Release Date : January 06, 1974
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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This is a companion case to McCuin v. State, 505 S.W.2d 827, to which we refer for more details. Appellant was indicted for the murder of Robert Lacey the charge being that he shot him with a gun. He was tried jointly with his brother Douglas and the jury found both guilty and assessed the punishment of each at 25 years' imprisonment. The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. Appellant testified that he shot Robert Lacey with a rifle while they were engaged in a brawl, some of the details having been set out in the companion case. Additionally, appellant testified that he was engaged in defending himself against an attack by several brothers of the deceased. The court charged on the law of self-defense but confined the defense to an attack by the deceased, not by multiple assailants. Appellant objected to this omission in the charge by specific and timely filed complaints, and the refusal to charge the jury on this theory of the case is made the basis of ground two in his brief.