Kilgore v. State

The appellant, Shirley Marie Kilgore, was convicted of manslaughter. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The state's evidence tended to show that on the evening of November 9, 1991, the body of Lieutenant Godwin was discovered on the ground in the appellant's driveway next to the appellant's car. He had been shot in the right side of his chest with a .38 caliber gun. The shot had entered his upper abdomen and had hit his liver. Dr. Alfredo Paredes with the state forensics department testified that Godwin bled to death as a result of the gunshot wound.

Sergeant Curtis Howell of the Houston…