EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter in which appellant's punishment was fixed at twenty-one years in prison. He here contends he was entitled to an instruction on drunkenness "as affecting" his mental condition at the time of the killing and that under the facts of the case an instruction on murder and voluntary manslaughter was improper.
First, we discuss the facts of the case. The deceased, George Francis, arrived...
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