Re: The Saga Of Joe Horn: Texas Man Cleared In Shotgun Shootings

Tiglath wrote:
> On Jul 15, 1:06 am, William Boyd <williamb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Trespassing is the threat of any thing the owner can imagine can
happen.
>> If he feels threatened he can shoot and that is  it.
>>
>> --
>> BILL P.
>>    &
>>   DOG
> 
> Please show me which Texan law allows to use deadly force for
> trespassing alone during the day.
> 
> Trespassing is not an act of violence necessarily.   It involves only
> the uninvited physical presence of a person on your land.
> 
> I'll say it again.  There is no evidence that the thieves threatened
> or offered violence to Horn.  Stepping on his lawn ON THE WAY OUT to
> the street is in fact the opposite of an attack in which a perp fast
> approaches brandi****ng a weapon.
> 
> For trespassing to be a threat there has to be other elements present
> that were not present in Horn's case.

Trespassing is a threat if it is perceived by the land owner, no other 
element is required.

> 
> It's time you admit that Horn didn't go our to repel intruders, he
> went out because they were getting away.
> 
> It just so happened that when he went out the thieves crossed his
> lawn, which Horn's lawyer construed into an assault, for obvious
> reasons for his client was in dire need of an excuse for blowing two
> people away for no good reason.
> 


-- 
BILL P.
   &
  DOG