People v. Wright

Defendant appeals as of right from a jury conviction for manslaughter.* 1 The sole question before us is whether sufficient evidence was presented to sustain a jury conviction of manslaughter.

Defendant and three friends, Marshall Martin, Harold Jones, and Gerald Jordan, were driving around in Jordan’s Volkswagen van. Martin spotted Michael Moore at a Shell service station and asked the driver, Jordan, to pull in and stop. Everyone exited the van while defendant alone entered the building to speak with Moore regarding a $2 debt owed to defendant. Moore stated he was not going to pay the money.…