Stinson v. State

OPINION

BLISS, Presiding Judge:

The appellant, Charles Allen Stinson, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried before a jury and convicted in the District Court of Dewey 'County, Oklahoma, for the crime of Murder. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed his punishment at a term of life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From a judgment and sentence in conformance with said verdict the defendant has perfected his timely appeal.

The evidence adduced at trial is as follows : Kiowa County Deputy Sheriff Robert Higgins testified that on the 2nd day of May, 1973, the…