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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Melvin M. MCCASLIN, Jr., Appellant.
    WD 80235
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
    ORDER FILED: January 29, 2019
    Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General, and Shaun J. Mackelprang, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, Attorneys for Respondent.
    Steven Willibey, Special Appellate Defender, Kansas City, MO, Attorney for Appellant.
    Before Division Four: Karen King Mitchell, Chief Judge, and Mark D. Pfeiffer and Thomas N. Chapman, Judges
    Order
   Per Curiam:

Melvin McCaslin appeals, following a jury trial, his convictions of voluntary manslaughter, § 565.023, and armed criminal action, § 571.015, for which he was sentenced as a persistent offender to concurrent terms of twenty and five years' imprisonment, respectively. McCaslin raises a single point on appeal. He argues that the trial court plainly erred in instructing the jury on voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action and then accepting the jury's verdict with respect to the same charges because there was insufficient evidence that McCaslin acted with sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. Finding no error, plain or otherwise, we affirm McCaslin's convictions and sentences. Rule 30.25(b).