Tweedy v. Director of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the evidence was legally sufficient to support rejection of sudden passion, noting that the decedent was already walking away at the time of the murder
• holding victim’s yelling at, arguing with, cursing at, and demanding to fight defendant did not “amount to an adequate cause to support a finding of sudden passion”
• we defer to fact finder’s determination of credibility of testimony and weight to give evidence
• “While it is undisputed that Benavides yelled at, argued with, cursed at, and demanded to fight appellant, those actions do not amount to an adequate cause to support a finding of sudden passion.”
• discussing evidence to support jury’s rejection of self-defense claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).