Buntin v. State

BUSSEY, Judge:

Floyd A. Buntin hereinafter referred to as defendant was charged with the crime of Murder. He was tried by jury who found him guilty of the included offense of Manslaughter in the First Degree, and appeals.

Since the principal assignment of error is that the evidence adduced on the trial was wholly insufficient to support the verdict of the .jury,, we deem it necessary to set forth in detail the evidence adduced on trial.

On the evening of March 20, 1962 at 11:45 P.M., Clyde C. Raper, the night dispatcher for the Stillwater Police Department, in response to a telephone call,…