State v. Robertson

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

L. C. Robertson was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of ten years. We affirm.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not challenged. A jury reasonably could find that on December 7, 1969, appellant inflicted fatal wounds upon his wife by use of a butcher knife.

Appellant’s first point is that the trial court erred in permitting the testimony of Demmetrist Perryman, the son of the deceased, because “there was no showing on voir dire that [he] understood the nature of the oath administered in courts of law…