State v. Walters

PRITCHARD, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, § 565.005, RSMo 1978, by the verdict of a jury and in accordance therewith, he was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment in the Division of Corrections, with credit for jail time.

Point V, first considered, attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. The facts are these: About 2:47 a. m., January 31, 1980, Nevada, Missouri, police dispatcher, Kathy McCarley, received a phone call: “The male voice said: ‘I am Billy Walters.’ He said he had just killed a man and he needed the police and ambulance.” Officer Paul- Hogan…