State v. Carothers

JOSEPH J. SIMEONE, Senior Judge.

This is the second appeal in this case. The first conviction was reversed by this Court. State v. Carothers, 710 S.W.2d 370 (Mo.App.1986), and the defendant was retried.

This appeal is from the retrial which resulted in a jury conviction of manslaughter. The jury was instructed on murder second degree, manslaughter and self-defense. The appellant alleges trial court error in (1) refusing to give an involuntary intoxication instruction MAI-CR2d 3.30.2, because there was evidence to support it and (2) in overruling appellant’s objection to prosecutorial argument…