Collis v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

The appellant, Donald Howard Collis, was charged with Shooting with the Intent to Kill, in violation of 21 O.S.1981, § 652, in Case No. CRF-81-2872, in the District Court of Tulsa County. The jury found him guilty and assessed his punishment at twenty (20) years’ imprisonment. The trial court sentenced the appellant accordingly and from this conviction he has perfected his appeal.

On August 13, 1981, shortly after midnight, Dwight Williams and his wife, Carrie, heard a noise on the first floor of their apartment. Williams left his wife upstairs while he went downstairs to…