State v. Hunter

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

11 Kristin Hunter appeals his manslaughter conviction for the intentional killing of his lover and roommate, Marcel Ivory. He also appeals the sentence of forty years at hard labor imposed upon him following his adjudication as an habitual offender.

With respect to his conviction, he first assigns as error that the evidence is insufficient to support the jury’s necessary finding beyond a reasonable doubt that his killing of Mr. Ivory was not justified as self-defense. He second assigns as error that the trial judge erred in admitting evidence at the request of the…