Bethune v. State

McMillan, judge.

The appellant was indicted for the offense of murder and was found guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter. He was subsequently sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.

At trial, the evidence presented indicated that during the course of a telephone conversation, the appellant became involved in an argument with his sister, Jo Ann Town-son, about her failure to pay him for a 1978 Ford LTD automobile that he had sold to her a year earlier. Shortly thereafter, the appellant went to the home of his sister and was met on the porch of her house by Billy Wayne Townson, the…