State v. Blackwell

HUNTER, Judge.

George William Blackwell, Sr. (“defendant”) appeals from a judgment dated 15 August 2002 entered consistent with jury verdicts finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Defendant was sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of seventy-two months with a corresponding maximum term of ninety-six months. We conclude there was no error.

The State’s evidence presented at trial beginning on 12 August 2002 tends to show the following. On 5 November 1999, David Ray Baker (“the victim”) returned home from visiting his aunt shortly after…