Towery v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, McIntosh County; T. P. Clay, Assigned Judge. Will Towery was convicted of .murder, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBrett, J.
In this case the plaintiff in error, Will Towery, who will be referred to as defendant, was convicted in the district court of McIntosh county of murder, and sentenced to death. ■ The facts in this case present an unfortunate condition from several angles, and in the trial of the case we think reversible error was committed.
The deceased, Charles Vaughn, was a white man, apparently past middle life, and on August 4, 1916, the day of the homicide, he seems to have met the defendant and his brother, Cecil Towery, at the resort of a negro woman, where they were all carousing and drinking Choctaw…
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- Ellis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1913
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