Bennett v. State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the evidence was insufficient to show Bennett provoked a man he did not know into attacking him so that Bennett could kill this man
• holding that reasonableness of fear for a self-defense claim must be judged from the standpoint of the accused at the \instant he responds to the attack\
• holding that reasonableness of fear for a self-defense claim must be judged from the standpoint of the accused at the “instant he responds to the attack”
• holding that reasonableness of fear for a self-defense claim must be judged from the standpoint of the accused at the “instant he responds to the attack” (emphasis added)
• holding that reasonableness of fear for a self-defense claim must be judged from the standpoint of the accused at the \instant he responds to the attack\ (emphasis added)
• holding reasonableness of 2 defendant’s fear must be judged from the standpoint of the accused at the moment of the attack

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).