Pace v. State

Stolz, Judge.

Defendant Pace was identified as having visited one Claude Ray Bryant in his hotel room several hours before Claude Ray Bryant’s dead and battered body was found by a maid. The defendant is alleged to have left the deceased’s hotel room about three hours before the body was found.

Shortly thereafter the defendant was found in an extremely drunken state and arrested. Charged with *840murder, the defendant proceeded to trial, at which he presented no evidence. The jury returned a guilty verdict for voluntary manslaughter and it is from the entry of judgment on this verdict that the…