Smith v. Territory of Oklahoma

Opinion of the court by

Beauchamp, J.:

Plaintiff in error, Pink Smith, was indicted in the district court of Logan county, charged with the murder of William L. Mitchell. At the February, 1903, term of that court, a trial was had, and the jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were by the court .overruled and exceptions saved, and the defendant sentenced to a term of three years in the territorial penitentiary; he appeals to this court. At the trial the plaintiff in error admitted the homicide…