Paige v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for voluntary manslaughter in which punishment, enhanced by proof of one prior conviction, was assessed by the jury at life.

In his first two grounds of error appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to prove voluntary manslaughter on grounds that voluntary manslaughter is not a lesser included offense of murder and the State failed to prove the element of voluntary manslaughter that appellant was acting “under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause” when he caused the death. V.T. C.A., Penal…