CLAY, Commissioner.
Appellant was convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Her principal contention on this appeal is that the court erred in failing to give an instruction on voluntary manslaughter.
One evening appellant and a friend she had been dating, Wade Taylor, were occupying a room in a motel. She had been drinking beer and he had been drinking whiskey. With her own pistol she shot Taylor six times, causing his death.
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