Lee v. State

Bell, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The transcript shows that defendant was in his car, and was leaving a high-school dance at about 10:30 p.m. Clinton Jackson was a passenger in the car. According to defendant’s unsworn statement, a group of three or four persons threw some rocks at his car as he was driving from the school grounds. He stopped the car and got out. The persons who had thrown the rocks ran. As defendant ran up an embankment in pursuit, he fired his gun up into the air to frighten them. At that time he could not see them, as they had fled.…