Blasengame v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was indicted and tried for voluntary manslaughter. The jury returned a guilty verdict and he appeals.

Appellant was socializing with his brother-in-law in the early morning hours of October 11, 1986, when a seventeen-year-old girl he had recently dated also dropped into his motel room to visit. The seventeen-year-old male victim, whom the girl had been with earlier in the evening, was invited to join them although appellant had exhibited some signs of jealousy. All of them had partaken of various drugs *623and/or alcohol during the course of the evening, and at…