Court Opinion

ID: 9653706
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Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:52:13.770312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:00.845970
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OPINION ON APPELLANT’S SECOND MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
By supplemental transcript, our attention is called for the first time to the fact that the clerk of the trial court had included in this record of the appeal a charge which had been given in a prior trial of this appellant, and did not include the one given in the trial.
The writer referred to the prior charge which contained a charge on self-defense and, therefore, did not discuss appellant’s contention sufficiently.
Appellant’s objection to the court’s charge is now before us. In order to pass upon the necessity for the giving of *83a charge, we need only quote briefly from appellant’s brief on original submission:
“Defendant maintained strongly that he did not intend to kill the deceased. He consistently testified that his gun discharged accidentally and unintentionally.”
We quote a portion of appellant’s testimony:
“Q. You never intended to pull that trigger; you never intended to kill Art Peel?
A. No, sir, I never intended to kill him.
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Q. You didn’t want to hurt him, either, though, did you?
A. I didn’t want to kill him.
Q. Did you intentionally pull the trigger or not? That’s what I am trying to find out.
A. No, sir, I never had it in my mind. I flenched and the gun went off.”
The record reflects that there had been no animosity between appellant and deceased. All the ill feelings were between one T. L. Adams and appellant’s father and then to appellant. No one testified that the deceased was armed. Appellant’s father, who witnessed the shooting, testified in part as follows:
“Q. And you didn’t think did you, down there that Art Peel was going to kill your son or cause him any serious bodily injury or anything, did you?
A. No.
Q. The question is, was there anything there that appeared that he was either going to kill your son or inflict serious bodily injury to him?
A. No.”
The trial court charged on the defense of the accident, and we have concluded that such a charge was consistent with appellant’s defense and that a charge on self-defense was not called for by the evidence.
Having so concluded appellant’s second motion for rehearing is overruled.