Word v. State

Appellant was tried on an indictment charging him in two counts with the murder of Ricky Andrew Vinson by shooting him with a shotgun. A jury found him guilty of manslaughter. The court fixed his punishment at imprisonment for six years and sentenced him accordingly.

The undisputed evidence was to the effect that the alleged victim was killed by buckshot fired from a shotgun by some person on a truck near the victim's home on the night of September 14, 1980, and that appellant was on the truck with four other persons at the time. He denied firing the weapon on the occasion, and there is…