McGirt v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Seminole county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree on an information charging him with having murdered one G. A. Matteson, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of six years.

It is first contended that the trial court erred in permitting the state to read the testimony given by Mrs. G. A. Matteson, wife of the deceased, and that of Wilson Bohanon, given at the preliminary examination of such witnesses, as the testimony of such witnesses in…