United States v. David Wade Thompson

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

David Wade Thompson, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Tribe, was indicted for the first de*361gree murder of Glen Alvin Mowrer on the Cheyenne River Reservation in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111 and 1153. He was tried before a jury, found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to a thirty-year prison term.

The defendant contends on appeal that the trial court erred by:(1) refusing to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense;(2) denying the defendant’s motion for a judgment of acquittal on the first degree murder…