No self-defense claim for Texan convicted of murder

TEXARKANA, Texas — An appeals court in Texas upheld the murder conviction of a man who shot and killed a woman who was out on bond for her alleged involvement in the murder of the man’s cousin, her former boyfriend. The evidence sufficed for the jury to decide his self-defense claim was not credible and there was no valid grounds for the court to give a sudden-passion instruction to the jury.