Slater v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Robert Lee Slater, was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years.

The indictment charged that defendant killed Jack Robinette by running an automobile over or against him.

For the state, one Morris Andrews testified that on Saturday night, June 12, 1965, he, with El Robinette, Douglas Lunsford and Jack Robinette were drinking beer and talking until 3:00 A.M. The beer gave out and they went to Lunsford’s room for a bottle of whiskey. On the way back home they stopped the car…