Bullock v. State

Banke, Judge.

The appellant became involved in a fight with her boyfriend and shot and killed him, allegedly in self-defense. She was indicted for murder but found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. On appeal, she enumerates as error the trial court’s refusal to give her requested charge on involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense to murder, as well as the trial court’s action in allowing the alternate juror to be present in the jury room during deliberations. Held:

1. A charge on involuntary manslaughter is not warranted where the evidence establishes without conflict that the…