Frazier v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellant Dana Frazier was convicted of first degree murder. He assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to charge the jury on the lesser included offense of manslaughter. The trial court’s refusal to give the instruction was a correct ruling, and we affirm the judgment of conviction.

The proof showed that both appellant and the victim grew up at about the same time in Marvell and, after graduation from high school, both moved to Little Rock where appellant sought a job and the victim attended college. The two were the type of friends who teased one another…