Court Opinion

ID: 9767710
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:23:59.335074+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:32.559444
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WOODLEY, Judge,
(concurring):
Appellant now urges that the court erred in charging the jury upon the law of abandoning the difficulty, the contention being that the evidence did not raise the issue, and the appellant timely objected to said charge.
As we understand the record, the court, in submitting self-defense, was giving effect to the conduct of the injured party at the house next door to his home. At that time the injured party was brandishing a shotgun, while appellant was secreted in the house.-
At the time of the shooting, Askew was running from his automobile toward his home, unarmed.
*452If the issue of self-defense was in the case it was because of Askew’s conduct before he left his shotgun at home.
Under the record we are unable to agree that the charge on abandoning the difficulty was error.
We deem it proper to again direct attention to the fact that the statute, Art. 658 V.A.C.C.P., requires that objections to the court’s charge be presented in writing. In Gonzalez v. State, 164 Texas Cr. Rep. 64, 297 S.W. 2d 144, 148, we declined to give approval to the practice of dictating objections to the charge.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.