Spratt v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Tulsa county of manslaughter in the second degree, and her punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the county jail for the term of one year and to pay a fine of $1,000 and costs of the prosecution.

Defendant was charged with having murdered her .husband, D. O. J. Spratt, on the 7th day of November, 1931. The killing occurred while Mrs. .Spratt and her husband were on a hunting expedition in Tulsa county by a load from a shotgun in the hands of defendant; the load entering his back. The theory of…