Liveoak v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DIAL, Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction in a voluntary manslaughter case prosecuted pursuant to TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 19.04 (Vernon 1974).
*693On September 23, 1981, Leonard Liveoak (appellant) shot and killed Ben B. Ingham, III, during a scuffle in appellant’s auto. Appellant claimed he shot Ingham in self-defense because Ingham was choking him as appellant was trying to drive from Ing-ham’s residence. The deceased suffered two bullet wounds: one, fired from a distance of approximately four feet, entered the left back chest and exited through the right chest; and the…
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