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SIMPSON v. STATE

No. 2-90-155-CR.

815 S.W.2d 900 (1991)

Carolyn Elizabeth SIMPSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, State.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

September 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Daniel Tompkins, Wichita Falls, for appellant.

Barry L. Macha, Crim. District Atty., John W. Brasher and William Harris, Asst., Wichita Falls, for State.

Before JOE SPURLOCK, II, HILL and DAY, JJ.

OPINION

HILL, Justice.

Carolyn Elizabeth Simpson appeals her conviction by a jury of the offense of robbery. The jury assessed her punishment at twelve years in the Texas Department of Corrections, now the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. In her sole point of error she asserts that the trial court erred in refusing her request to instruct the jury regarding the law of a "citizen's arrest" and the use of force in response, basically...

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