State v. Velasquez

OPINION

NEAL, Judge.

Defendant, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, raises four issues in this appeal.

1. Whether the trial court erred when it refused to dismiss the indictment based upon the ineligibility of a grand juror.

2. Whether the indictment should have been dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct.

3. Whether the trial court erred in giving an unrequested self-defense instruction.

4. Whether the trial court erred in failing to direct a verdict of not guilty based upon insufficiency of the evidence.

We affirm.

Differing versions of the killing were presented at trial. The defendant…