Gibson v. State

GRIFFIN, Justice,

for the Court:

This case, concerning manslaughter, comes to the Court from the Circuit Court of Rankin County. There, a jury convicted the appellant, Kevin Neal Gibson, who then received a sentence of eight years. On appeal, Gibson contends that the lower court erred when it failed to grant him a directed verdict as well as when it admitted into evidence the results of a blood test for alcohol. We affirm.

On September 19, 1981, at approximately 1:45 A.M., Danny Ray Alford was a passenger in a van, travelling on Interstate 20 East, near the Jackson Municipal Airport exit. Having…