State v. Russell Council Judge

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant contends that there was not sufficient evidence to submit the charge of murder in the first degree to the jury. The defendant also argues that the court erred in allowing the State to produce evidence of the defendant’s witnesses’ prior inconsistent statements. Finally, the defendant assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to charge the jury with regard to the possible verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Having reviewed the defendant’s assignments of error, we find no reversible error.

The State produced evidence which tended to show that the…