Court Opinion

ID: 9668738
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:24:14.914918+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:47.592301
License: Public Domain

MILLER, Judge,
concurring.
I write to reiterate that the 1974 Penal Code sections relating to homicide have not been construed as an exclusive codification of the law of homicide as it relates to self-defense, right to arm one’s self, etc. Young v. State, 530 S.W.2d 120 (Tex.Cr.App.1975).
The charge requested in this case was sanctioned by pre-1974 cases as cited by the majority opinion. Believing that this *102charge is contained within the ambit of those pre-1974 common law jury instructions that also survived the “new” penal code, as noted in Young, supra, I join the majority opinion.
OVERSTREET, MALONEY and BENAVIDES, JJ., join this opinion.