Gannaway v. State

Marshall, Judge.

Appellant Gannaway brings her appeal from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter and a sentence of three years’ confinement. She enumerates as error the refusal of the trial court to direct a verdict of acquittal at the close of the state’s case, and the allegedly erroneous curtailment of closing argument by the defendant’s counsel. Held:

1. The evidence reflects a "lovers’ spat,” involving loud and vehement argument, physical violence by both the appellant and the deceased, and two or more shots fired by the appellant, one of which struck the deceased in the chest and caused…