HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a Texas man who argued the state’s version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after a verbal confrontation at a 2010 party rested their case Tuesday without calling any witnesses.

With the end of testimony, jurors had been expected to begin deliberating Raul Rodriguez’s fate after closing arguments Tuesday afternoon. But state District Judge David Mendoza delayed closings until Wednesday to give lawyers more time to finalize instructions to the jury.