State v. Carlile

CROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, charged with murder in the second degree, was found guilty by a jury of involuntary manslaughter. § 565.024.1 The jury assessed punishment at four years’ imprisonment. The trial court entered judgment per the verdict.

Appellant presents three assignments of error, the first of which reads:

“The trial court erred in giving Instruction No. 7 (involuntary manslaughter) to the jury because there was no evidence from which the jury could acquit the defendant of murder in the second degree and convict her of involuntary manslaughter in that there was no evidence that…