REED, Judge.
Johnie Smith Wooten appeals from a judgment which sentenced him to a 20-year term in the penitentiary pursuant to a verdict convicting him of voluntary manslaughter.
In the course of an argument in his home with a young-adult son, Wooten shot and killed the son with a shotgun blast. Another son was present when the argument started but left before the shooting, leaving no one in the house but Wooten and the victim. Wooten claimed self-defense...
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