State v. Padilla

OPINION

BIVINS, Judge.

A grand jury indictment charged defendant and his two companions with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and two counts of aggravated assault. While the evidence would have supported convictions on any one of those charges, the jury, for whatever reason, convicted defendant only of voluntary manslaughter under an instruction as to that lesser offense. The trial court gave that instruction at defendant’s request and over the state’s objection. This appeal solely concerns defendant.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of voluntary manslaughter claiming, contrary to his…