Flannery v. State

McKAY, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment was assessed at 20 years confinement and a fine of $7,500.

The record reflects that appellant’s daughter, Paulette Reese, informed him that she had been raped. He and his son-in-law, husband of Paulette Reese, drove to the house where James Matlock, the deceased, lived, and Matlock got into appellant’s pickup truck and they drove to a vacant lot. Appellant accused deceased of raping his daughter, deceased denied it, and the son-in-law got out of the pickup and walked toward a nearby house after being heard to…