Try reading section 15.03 (a).
Miss that gate, and it's like a downhill skier missing the first one when needing hit that one most of all --or else be disqualified.
Simple presence does not equate to fulfillment of (2) (b) it should be added.
They were charged with murder. Lacking being charged with conspiracy to go there that day to commit some other crime, prosecution should have evidence that each and every one indicted went there planning on murdering others.
All along in this also; deaths arising from acts of self defense are not "murder". Not when there was no other plan to commit what would clearly be crime.
If that not be so, then every concealed carry permit holder, if knowingly arming himself against potential danger, successfully defended himself by eliminating a threat to their own life by killing another ---would be guilty of murder.
One of the most basic of all civil rights is the right to one's own life. Therefor, the right to engage in acts of self-protection cannot be abridged.
Our rights do not come from law, nor from the Constitution. According to the framers of the Constitution, as it is written in the Declaration of Independence, those rights originate from Nature's God (hence, are natural rights not arising from codification of law).
Civil Rights or God-Given Rights? [Michael Peroutka]