Henley v. State

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals · Decided 2016-06-29

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Meyers, J., filed a concurring opinion. Once again, the dissenters have completely missed the point. This defendant was seeking validation for beating his ex-wife under the false theory that he assaulted her in defense of a third person. He claimed to the trial court that he was defending his sons from his ex-wife’s fian-cé’s former stepson, who had been accused of sexually assaulting the boys months earli…

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