Lowery v. State

CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

On an indictment charging murder in the first degree, appellant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years in accordance with the verdict of the jury.

Defendant and the alleged victim, Julie Vore, were not married, but their physical relationship had been as if they were for more than a year prior to her death. She was sixteen years of age; he was twenty-nine. They were the parents of a daughter born three weeks before who was with them at the time the mother was shot in an automobile while the three were returning…