McGowan v. State

SPECTOR, Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of a judgment of conviction for manslaughter for which he was sentenced to a term of six months to twenty years which was entered after a jury trial. The information on which the trial was had charged appellant with murder in the second degree.

The homicide occurred during the course of an altercation outside a saloon in Jacksonville about two o’clock in the morning. Appellant and his girlfriend had earlier visited several watering places and before calling it a night, they drove back to Dell’s Monsoon Lounge. As they pulled into the parking lot,…