State v. Rideau

NUGENT, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Terrance O. Rideau was charged with second degree murder, § 565.-004,1 in the shooting death of Billy Ray Smith, found guilty of manslaughter, § 565.005, by a jury and sentenced to six years imprisonment. On appeal, defendant asserts that the trial court erred in not giving a manslaughter by culpable negligence instruction, that the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction for voluntary manslaughter, that the prosecutor improperly argued in closing that defendant intended to kill the victim, and that the court erred in failing to instruct on…