Reynolds v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction for voluntary manslaughter.

The defendant admitted shooting his wife with a pistol but claimed that he drew in self defense and fired by accident.

Testimony shows that the two had quarreled "late that evening.” The defendant left and returned home late at night; he had been drinking; three shots were fired by him in and around the house, some allegedly at a person he discovered running out the back door upon his return. He testified that deceased pointed a rifle at him as she stood in the center of her bedroom and he raised his pistol…