Hunter v. State

The plaintiff in error, Sam Hunter, was jointly charged with Walter Epps, in the district court of Seminole county, with the murder of James Cravens. He was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced by the court to serve 10 years in the state penitentiary.

The material testimony on the part of the state, as shown, by the record, may be briefly stated as follows: The accused, Hunter, and Epps, the person jointly charged, were brothers-in-law, and lived on the farm of Jim Cravens, the deceased. Some time prior to this homicide, Cravens had been a witness in a homicide case against a relative of…