CHANEY v. STATE

No. CR 73-162.

506 S.W.2d 134 (1974)

Douglas Ray CHANEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Langston, Public Defender, and Hubert Graves, Deputy Public Defender, Fort Smith, for appellant.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen. by Alston Jennings, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


HOLT, Justice.

The appellant, charged with first degree murder, was found guilty by a jury of second degree and his punishment assessed at twenty-one years in the Department of Correction. On appeal from that judgment appellant first contends for reversal that the court erred in giving instructions on the lesser included offenses of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. The sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdict is not an issue on appeal...

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