Halbert v. State

OPINION

OLIVER-PARROTT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter. Appellant was charged with murder, the jury found appellant guilty of the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter and assessed punishment at five-years confinement. We reverse.

On March 1, 1989, appellant was at her grandmother’s house with her live-in boyfriend, Floyd Herbert Clark, Jr. (Clark) and two of her children. Appellant left the house and walked to a store a block away to buy some pink chámpale, leaving the two children with her boyfriend. Appellant did not have enough money…