Givens v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of voluntary manslaughter; the punishment is imprisonment for 16 years.

The review of the appellant’s grounds of error does not require a full statement of facts. The evidence shows that the appellant shot and killed a man on a Dallas city street.

In each of six grounds of error the appellant complains of the prosecutor’s argument. The first is that the prosecutor, at the guilt-innocence phase of the trial, argued:

“There’s a lot of senseless and tragic and unnecessary killing going on in our community, and our State,…