A 25-year-old man convicted of manslaughter in the death of a man from the Black Lake First Nation has been sentenced to over seven years in prison.

In September 2013, Davis Broussie was stabbed in a parking lot in Prince Albert and later died in hospital.

Charles Adam Stewart, the man convicted of killing him, was sentenced in a Prince Albert courtroom this morning.

At a sentencing hearing earlier this month, the Crown argued for an 8 to 10-year sentence because it said the incident was a deliberate act.

The defence argued for a lesser sentence because Stewart suffers with a cognitive disability.

The Court of Queen’s Bench justice opted for something in the middle, handing out a seven-and-a-half-year sentence.

The judge also recommended that part of Stewart’s penitentiary term be served in a regional psychiatric centre.