Leberta v. State

OPINION

FENDER, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Kenneth Gale Leberta, was convicted by a jury of the offense of voluntary manslaughter. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 19.04 (Vernon 1974). The jury assessed punishment at sixty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $10,000 fine.

We affirm.

On March 1, 1986, appellant and his roommate, Rodney Sanders, had a fight at a gravel pit in Fort Worth, Texas. Sanders’s body was found near the pit later the same day. An autopsy revealed that Sanders had suffered several stab wounds in the neck, and at least five blows to the head. Appellant…