OPINION
MILLER, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault. Punishment was assessed by the jury at five years confine[436] ment in the Texas Department of Corrections.
On November 26, 1979, appellant fired four shots from a .22 calibre semi-automatic rifle into the occupied trailer home of his long time, across-the-street neighbor. One bullet passed completely through the trailer. No injuries were sustained. Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault pursuant to V.T.C.A. Penal Code, §§ 22.01(a)(2) and 22.02(a)(4).1 In his first ground of error, appellant contends the trial court erred in failing to grant his requested charge upon the lesser included offense of reckless conduct. We agree and reverse the judgment of the trial court. This is a case of first impression.2
I.
V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.05 (Reckless Conduct) provides:
“(a) A person commits an offense if he recklessly engages in conduct that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.
(b) Recklessness and danger are presumed if the actor knowingly pointed a firearm at or in the direction of another whether or not the actor believed the firearm to be loaded.
(c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.”
Appellant asserts that reckless conduct is a lesser included offense of aggravated assault, citing Gallegos v. State, 548 S.W.2d 50 (Tex.Cr.App.1977). In Gallegos, the defendant was convicted of reckless conduct and contended on appeal that the trial court erred in failing to charge the jury on the lesser included offense of assault. In rejecting the defendant’s contention, we stated:
“V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Secs. 22.01 to 22.-04, provide that reckless acts that cause bodily injury constitute assault, but that reckless acts that fall short of injuring another are excluded. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 22.05 (Reckless Conduct) applies to those acts that fall short of injuring another. Accordingly, reckless conduct is a lesser and included offense to assault under the Penal Code. This is exactly the reverse of [the defendant’s] contention.” (Emphasis deleted.)
Id. at 50, 51. The State argues the statement in Gallegos that “reckless conduct is a lesser and included offense to assault” is overbroad and mere dictum. We agree.
Whether one offense bears such a relationship to the offense charged so as to constitute a lesser included offense under Art. 37.09, V.A.C.C.P., is an issue which must await a case by case determination. Williams v. State, 605 S.W.2d 596 (Tex.Cr.App.1980); Ex parte McClelland, 588 S.W.2d 957 (Tex.Cr.App.1979); Hazel v. State, 534 S.W.2d 698 (Tex.Cr.App.1976); Day v. State, 532 S.W.2d 302 (Tex.Cr.App.1975) (Opinion on Rehearing). A given section of the Penal Code may define more than one way in which an offense can be committed. An allegation that an offense has been committed in one way may include a lesser offense, while an allegation that the offense was committed in another way would not include the lesser offense.3 [437] Martinez v. State, 599 S.W.2d 622 (Tex.Cr.App.1980). V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.01(a) provides three different ways in which the offense of assault may be committed. Thus, Gallegos, supra, should not be read to hold that reckless conduct is a lesser included offense of each form of assault under V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.01(a)(1), (2)or (3). The statement in Gallegos is simply too broad and bypasses analysis.
In addressing appellant’s contention, we begin with the statutory definitions of a lesser included offense set forth in the Code of Criminal Procedure. Article 37.09, V.A.C.C.P. provides:
“An offense is a lesser included offense if:
(1) it is established by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to establish the commission of the offense charged;
(2) it differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less serious injury or risk of injury to the same person, property, or public interest suffices to establish its commission;
(3) it differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less culpable mental state suffices to establish its commission; or
(4)it consists of an attempt to commit the offense charged or an otherwise included offense.”
Each definition of a lesser included offense in Art. 37.09 is stated with reference to “the offense charged,” and specifically states the manner in which the lesser included offense differs from the offense charged. Day v. State, 532 S.W.2d 302 (Tex.Cr.App.1976) (Opinion on Rehearing). In the instant case, the “offense charged” alleged in pertinent part that appellant:
"... did then and there knowingly and intentionally use a deadly weapon, to wit: a firearm, and did then and there threaten George Smith with imminent bodily injury by the use of said deadly weapon.” 4
The State contends that reckless conduct is not a lesser included offense of the offense charged in this case under any of the provisions of Art. 37.09.5 With respect to subdivision (1) of Art. 37.09, the State specifically asserts that proof of danger of serious bodily injury6 is not established by the same or less facts than proof of a threat of imminent bodily injury.7 While this contention may have merit with respect to simple assault as denounced by V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.01(a)(2), it is not persuasive when the assault is aggravated [438] by the use of a deadly weapon pursuant to V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.02(a)(4).
Under Art. 37.09(1), supra, reckless conduct is a lesser included offense of aggravated assault as charged in the instant case if it is established by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to establish commission of the offense charged. Proof of the factual elements of the offense is “required” to establish “commission” of the offense charged.8 Sanders v. State, 664 S.W.2d 705, 709 (Tex.Cr.App.1982) (Clinton, J. concurring and dissenting on rehearing). Thus, in the ease at bar, in order to establish the commission of the offense charged, the State was required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that:
(1) A person
(2) intentionally or knowingly9
(3) threatened another with imminent bodily injury
(4) by [knowingly and intentionally]10 using a deadly weapon.
The elements of reckless conduct as defined by V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.05(a), are:
(1) A person
(2) recklessly
(3) engages in conduct
(4) that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.
We now turn to consider whether the State established commission of the lesser included offense of reckless conduct by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to establish the offense charged, aggravated assault by the use of a deadly weapon. In this case, when the State established the higher culpable mental state of intent or knowledge, it necessarily established the lower culpable mental state of recklessness. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 6.02(e); Briceno v. State, 580 S.W.2d 842 (Tex.Cr.App.1979). The precise issue thus becomes whether proof of threatening another with imminent bodily injury by using a deadly weapon constitutes proof that the actor engaged in conduct that placed another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.
The term “danger” is not statutorily defined: it should therefore be “read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage.” See, Code Construction Act, Art. 5429b-2, § 2.01, V.A.C.S. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary 285 (1981) defines danger as “exposure or liability to injury, pain, or loss ...” Danger is also defined as “jeopardy; exposure to loss or injury; peril.” Black’s Law Dictionary 355 (5th ed. 1979). V.T. C.A. Penal Code, § 1.07(a)(ll) statutorily defines the term “deadly weapon” and provides:
“(11) 'Deadly weapon’ means:
(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or
(B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
Patently, threatening another with imminent bodily injury is engaging in conduct. When that threat is accomplished by the use of a deadly weapon, by definition the victim is “exposed” to the deadly character of the weapon and the inherent risk of serious bodily injury. The danger of serious bodily injury is necessarily established when a deadly weapon is used in the commission of an offense. It follows, therefore, that proof of threatening another with imminent bodily injury by the use of a deadly weapon constitutes proof of [439] engaging in conduct that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.
We hold that under Art. 37.09(1), Y.A.C.C.P., reckless conduct is a lesser included offense of “the offense charged” in the instant case because it is established by proof of the same facts required to establish the commission of aggravated assault by the use of a deadly weapon.
II.
Merely because a lesser offense is included within the proof of a greater offense, however, does not always warrant a jury charge on the lesser offense. Aguilar v. State, 682 S.W.2d 556 (Tex.Cr.App.1985). In Royster v. State, 622 S.W.2d 442 (Tex.Cr.App.1981) (Opinion on rehearing), Judge Tom Davis, writing for the Court on rehearing, stated the Texas rule:
“Thus, in determining whether a charge on a lesser included offense is required, a two step analysis is to be used. First, the lesser included offense must be included within the proof necessary to establish the offense charged. Secondly, there must be some evidence in the record that if the defendant is guilty, he is guilty of only the lesser offense.” (Citation omitted.)
We have employed this two step analysis in recent opinions dealing with the necessity of a charge on a lesser included offense. See Aguilar, supra; Wallace v. State, 679 S.W.2d 1 (Tex.Cr.App.1983); Parr v. State, 658 S.W.2d 620 (Tex.Cr.App.1983); Denison v. State, 651 S.W.2d 754 (Tex.Cr.App.1983); Daniels v. State, 633 S.W.2d 899 (Tex.Cr.App.1982); McKinney v. State, 627 S.W.2d 731 (Tex.Cr.App.1982) (Opinion on rehearing); Bravo v. State, 627 S.W.2d 152 (Tex.Cr.App.1982); Johnson v. State, 623 S.W.2d 654 (Tex.Cr.App.1981).
As discussed previously, the lesser offense of reckless conduct was included within the proof necessary to establish the offense charged, aggravated assault by the use of a deadly weapon. Article 37.09(1), V.A.C.C.P. The question remaining in the two step analysis is whether there is some evidence that appellant, if guilty, is guilty only of the lesser included offense of reckless conduct. A recitation of the facts thus becomes necessary.
A.
This offense stemmed from what has been characterized as a “neighborhood argument” arising in the Pleasant Hill Community of Nacogdoches County on November 25, 1979. The record reflects that appellant owned a small grocery store, commonly called “Mr. Bell’s Grocery,” located on Farm-to-Market Road 2664. Appellant also owned a trailer house located on FM 2664. Appellant and his wife used both the grocery store and the trailer house “back and forth as a home” because the grocery store lacked facilities at the time.
.The record further reflects that the complainant, George Smith, lived with his wife and small child in a trailer house across the road (FM 2664) from appellant’s trailer house. The complainant’s trailer house sat “kind of on a little hill” approximately “three or four car lengths” off of FM 2664, and was visible from the road. Appellant and complainant had been across-the-street neighbors for six or seven years prior to the offense. Their trailer houses were approximately seventy-five yards apart.
According to defensive testimony, around 5:30 on the Sunday afternoon of November 25, 1979, the complainant and others began passing by Mr. Bell’s Grocery in their vehicles and “speeding and spinning their tires and racing their motors ... right at the business.” Around 6:30 that same afternoon, appellant began receiving harassing telephone calls, the bulk of which were made by the complainant’s brother, Ronnie Smith. Prompted by this activity, appellant summoned his son-in-law, Robert Wiggins, because “he seen there was going to be trouble.” Wiggins, who lived nearby, drove to the grocery store accompanied by his friend, Billy Gilliam.
When Wiggins and Gilliam arrived at appellant’s store around 8 o’clock, appellant was again on the phone with the ha[440] rassing caller. Appellant continued to receive harassing calls throughout the evening — Gilliam testified he counted seventeen while he was present — which were described as “just cursing him out and threatening him and so forth,” spaced apart “just long enough to hang up and call again.” The telephone conversations were audible to those present at the grocery store because appellant used an amplifying device on the phone. Witnesses testified that during the course of the calls appellant was threatened in two particular respects. One threat was to put appellant across the road with his mother and father, which the record reflects is the location of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The other threat was “to do the same thing to [appellant’s] trailer that happened to [appellant’s] store,” which the record reflects had burned down two years before. Concerned by the implication that his trailer house might also burn down, appellant sent his wife and Wiggins to check on it. Later, appellant sent his wife alone to check on the trailer. Neither check revealed any activity.
Complaining witness, George Smith, testified that he and a friend, Randy Randall, were passing by appellant’s store around 9 o’clock that evening when they saw appellant next to the road with a pistol in his hand.11 After they passed by the store and traveled a short distance down the road, they heard a gunshot. Nothing was hit. Complainant and Randall proceeded to Randall’s house and called the sheriff’s office.
Officer Bud Cain responded to complainant’s call and went to appellant’s grocery store. There he talked with appellant and his wife, observed a number of the continuing harassing phone calls, and even spoke with the harassing caller on one occasion. Cain then went to Randall’s house where he talked with Randall and complainant. He then returned to appellant’s store and spoke with appellant a second time. No arrests were made. Officer Cain testified that as he was leaving the store the second time appellant stated: “[w]hen you leave that’s when the war starts.” Officer Cain then left the scene and returned to town.
Around one o’clock in the morning of November 26, 1979, complainant and his family left Randy Randall’s house and went to their trailer home. The record reflects that complainant had no outside lights at his trailer house, but at the time of the instant offense did have the kitchen lights on and the curtains open. As the three were preparing for bed, complainant’s wife, Nita Smith, heard a vehicle approaching. She looked out the window and saw appellant’s truck coming up the road. Appellant was driving. The truck stopped right in front of the complainant’s trailer while still on FM 2664. Nita called the sheriff’s office. The truck then proceeded up the road, turned around, and returned to again stop in front of the complainant’s trailer.
The complainant was talking to Officer Cain on the telephone when “the shooting started.” Complainant testified that appellant’s truck was stopped on FM 2664 right in front of the complainant’s trailer house. The driver’s side of the truck was facing complainant’s trailer, and appellant was the driver. Complainant testified the shots came from the direction of appellant’s truck. The record reflects four bullets struck the complainant’s trailer, with one bullet passing completely through. No injuries were sustained. Appellant was arrested shortly thereafter and charged with the instant offense.
At trial, appellant denied intentionally shooting into the complainant’s trailer. Appellant testified that he remained concerned that his trailer would be burned so he and his wife drove by to check over his property. Appellant’s property covered about “three football fields” along FM [441]*4412664, just across the street from the complainant’s trailer. According to appellant, they slowly drove by the property once, turned around, and were slowly driving by again when appellant’s wife thought she saw someone on appellant’s property. Appellant decided “[w]ell, I’ll shoot a couple of rounds off and maybe we’ll get some movement out of it.” At that time, appellant’s property was on the passenger side of the truck and complainant’s trailer was on the driver’s side of the truck. Without getting out of the truck or opening the vehicle door, appellant put the gun out of the window on the driver’s side of the truck and fired the shots “up in the air”; as appellant’s wife worded it — “to scare, if it was someone down there.” Relative to the shooting incident appellant testified:
“A. ... I put the gun out the window, fired it, and checked to be sure that I was firing in a position so it wouldn’t hit. One thing I didn’t want to hit was anything over here.
“Q. John, did you aim that gun?
“A. No, sir. I didn’t aim it, I just stuck it out the window, but I still was—
“Q. Thought you was shooting—
“A. Certainly I was shooting — yeah, I was shooting directly up in the air where it would not hit anything, yes sir.
“Q. ... John, did you think you were shooting towards the trailer?
“A. No, sir. I had no intention of shooting towards the trailer.
“Q. Were you looking over that way—
“A. No, sir.
“Q. —when you shot?
“A. No, sir. I wasn’t even looking at the trailer. I was looking back the other way previously—
“A. —and this shooting was actually kind of a, uh, quick reaction type of thing, just a—
“Q. Uh, were you looking to see if anyone run from the orchard when you—
“A. Oh, —
“Q. —shot?
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. And did you see anybody run?
“A. No, sir. I didn’t see, but my wife was over on that side—
“A. —blocking, you know, part of my view that way.
“Q. Had you looked over there to see if there was any lights on at the George Smith’s trailer?
“A. No, sir. I wasn’t paying any attention to his trailer. I was interested in mine.
“A. I didn’t notice any lights.
“Q. You wasn’t looking over that way and hadn’t been looking over that way John, at all?
“A. No, sir.
“Q. How many shots did you fire, John?
“A. Four or five approximately. I didn’t count them. I just—
“Q. Well, did you shoot them off fast, slow or what?
“A. Uh, I just pulled the trigger at random
On cross-examination, appellant reiterated his contention that the shooting of the complainant’s trailer was unintentional. During cross-examination, the following colloquy occurred:
“Q. Okay. And when you shot that gun out the window, the four or five times that you talked about, you shot it out the window on your side. You were driving, is that correct?
“A. That’s correct.
“Q. Just stuck it out the window and shot it, is that correct?
“A. Not in the position that your holding it, no.
“A. It was in an upward position.
“Q. Okay. Were you looking in the direction you were shooting it?
“A. Was I looking in the direction?
[442] “Q. Yeah.
“A. In other words, your question is, did I know where each bullet went to?
“Q. No, sir. I’m just asking the question—
“Q. —of whether or not you were looking in the direction you were shooting the gun?
“A. Well, I shot up. I looked—
“A. —and placed the gun to shoot it into the air so it would not hit anything.
“Q. So, you intentionally didn’t want to his [sic] the trailer, the Smith’s trailer, is that your testimony?
“A. Yes, sir. I’m saying I didn’t intentionally point to hit anything.
“Q. Okay. My question is this. You intentionally tried not to hit the Smith’s trailer, is that your testimony earlier?
“A. No. My intention was not to hit anything.
“Q. All right.
“A. Any property. Anything.
“Q. And you were looking — you had problems on the other side of the road and you shot on this side of the road—
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. —is that your testimony?
“A. Well, my wife was on the other side and you don’t shoot across your wife.”
B.
Article 37.08, V.A.C.C.P., provides that in a prosecution for an offense with lesser included offenses, the jury may find the defendant not guilty of the greater offense but guilty of any lesser included offense. If evidence from any source raises the issue of a lesser included offense, the charge must be given. Moore v. State, 574 S.W.2d 122 (Tex.Cr.App.1978). A defendant’s testimony alone is sufficient to raise the issue. Roberts v. State, 590 S.W.2d 498 (Tex.Cr.App.1979); Briceno v. State, 580 S.W.2d 842 (Tex.Cr.App.1979). As noted in Thompson v. State, 521 S.W.2d 621 (Tex.Cr.App.1974), “it is .... well recognized that a defendant is entitled to an instruction on every issue raised by the evidence, whether produced by the State or the defendant, and whether it be strong, weak, unimpeached, or contradicted.” (Citations omitted.) It is then the jury’s duty, under the proper instructions, to determine whether the evidence is credible and supports the lesser included offense. Moore, supra, at 124.
In the recent case of Lugo v. State, 667 S.W.2d 144 (Tex.Cr.App.1984), the defendant was convicted of murder and contended on appeal that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter. The court of appeals, applying the two-part test set forth in Royster, supra, held that the evidence did not raise the issue of a reckless killing and the trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter. Lugo v. State, 653 S.W.2d 513 (Tex.App. — Corpus Christi 1983). The court of appeals held that since the defendant denied pointing the rifle at his victim, and testified that he believed the gun was unloaded, he negated any claim that he perceived the danger. Thus, the court of appeals held that the defendant’s testimony negated the mental state required to establish involuntary manslaughter.
We reversed the judgment of the court of appeals in Lugo and remanded the ease for a new trial. We initially noted that the jury, as the trier of fact, may accept or reject all or a part of a witnesses’ testimony, even the defendant’s. Thus, we rejected the notion that a defendant’s testimony can negate the issue of a lesser included offense and held that we will consider all the evidence presented at trial in order to determine whether an instruction on a lesser included offense should be given. Applying these concepts to the facts in Lugo, we held:
“The sole issue at trial concerned appellant’s intent. The State’s position was [443] that its evidence showed that appellant intentionally pointed the rifle at his wife knowing it was loaded and then knowingly and intentionally shot her. We find that the jury as trier of fact could have reasonably rejected the appellant’s testimony that he was unaware that the rifle was loaded; it could have reasonably believed the witness’ testimony that the appellant cocked and pointed the rifle at the victim and thus could have inferred from such action that the appellant knew the rifle was loaded; and it also could have reasonably believed appellant’s testimony that he did not intend to kill his wife. Accordingly, the jury could have reasonably concluded that appellant’s action in pointing a loaded rifle at his wife in an attempt to persuade her to relinquish the keys to a car constituted a conscious disregard of ‘a substantial and unjustifiable risk.’ ”
The rationale of Lugo is applicable to this case. As in Lugo, the sole issue at trial concerned appellant’s state of mind. The appellant’s properly requested charge on reckless conduct encompassed the mental state of recklessness. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 6.03(c) provides:
“(c) A person acts recklessly, or is reckless, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he is aware of but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.”
The thrust of the State’s evidence adduced at trial was that appellant intentionally fired the shots into the trailer with the intent to threaten complainant with imminent bodily injury, or at least that appellant was aware that his conduct was reasonably certain to cause that result. The thrust of appellant’s testimony was that he shot the gun four or five times (“Certainly I was shooting”), but that he did not intend to shoot at the complainant’s trailer or its occupants. Indeed, appellant testified that he intentionally pointed the gun elsewhere to avoid hitting anything or any property on complainant’s side of the road.
As pointed out in Lugo and cases cited therein, the jury, as the sole trier of fact, was entitled to believe all or part of the conflicting testimony proffered and introduced by either side. The instant jury was thus free to believe appellant’s testimony that he did not intentionally shoot at the complainant’s trailer, and thus did not intend to threaten the complainant with imminent bodily injury. The physical evidence in this case shows, however, that the complainant’s trailer was struck by four bullets fired from appellant’s gun. The jury, therefore, could quite reasonably reject appellant’s testimony that he checked to be sure and was pointing the gun away from the trailer when he fired the gunshots, and justifiably believe that he did point the gun at and in the direction of the trailer. Thus, by selectively believing some of the proffered and introduced evidence adduced at trial and rejecting other proffered and introduced conflicting evidence, the jury could have concluded that appellant was not acting with intent to threaten imminent bodily injury, but was nonetheless pointing the gun at or in proximity of the trailer creating a risk that another would be placed in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.
The evidence in this case shows that appellant was well aware of the location and proximity of the complainant’s trailer; for six or seven years he had lived a scant seventy-five yards away. Appellant testified that he wasn’t paying any attention to the complainant’s trailer and he didn’t notice any lights. Of course, appellant was aware that this was the complainant’s home and the instant offense did occur in the early morning hours. Appellant’s testimony raises an issue over whether he was aware that the trailer was occupied at the time of the instant offense. The State’s witnesses’ testimony was that the lights in the trailer were on and the curtains were [444] open and that the trailer was easily visible from the road. Thus, by selectively believing the conflicting proffered and introduced evidence of obvious occupancy, the jury could have concluded that appellant was aware of but consciously disregarded the substantial and unjustiable risk that the actual circumstances existed, i.e., that the trailer was occupied. Furthermore, the jury could reasonably conclude that appellant was aware that shooting “up” on the same side of the road where complainant’s trailer sat “kind of on a little hill” entailed the risk that another would be placed in imminent danger of serious bodily injury and, in conscious disregard of that “substantial and unjustifiable risk,” appellant engaged in the repeated voluntary discharge of a semi-automatic weapon from a public road in an inhabited area.
There was no direct evidence that appellant knowingly and intentionally fired the weapon at the complainant or his trailer. The jury, as the trier of fact, was entitled to infer from the evidence that appellant acted intentionally, and indeed they did. By selectively believing the conflicting proffered and introduced evidence, however, the jury was entitled to infer that appellant acted in conscious disregard of the substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result of his conduct would occur.
We find the evidence raises the issue of reckless conduct under the “guilty only” test of Royster, supra, and Aguilar, supra. We hold that it was error for the trial court to refuse appellant’s requested charge on reckless conduct, leaving the jury no alternative but to convict for aggravated assault or to acquit.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause is remanded.
McCORMICK, J., dissents.