Bivens v. State

JohN A. FoglemaN, Justice.

Appellant seeks reversal of his conviction of voluntary manslaughter upon the ground that an admission of guilt by appellant was improperly admitted into evidence and that there was no other evidence that tended to prove his guilt.

On the night of the alleged offense, appellant attended a dance at the Lafayette High School gymnasium and while he was there a fight started. The deceased, one James Carpenter, and appellant were watching the fight from the bleachers when they became involved in a fight themselves, and rolled down to the floor at the bottom. There…