Neal v. State

This is an appeal wherein the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree in the killing of one E. W. Chambless, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of 35 years.

The defendant was convicted largely upon circumstantial evidence. The evidence of the state was that the body of Chambless was found about 30 steps from the highway, about half a mile from the town of Earlsboro, in Pottawatomie county; that the body appeared to have been dragged from the road down into a small…