Brantley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Jackson County; ■ Frank Mathews, Judge. M. M. Brantley was convicted.of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. . M. M. Brantley was tried in the court below upon an information alleging that in said county on or about the 30th day of November, 1914, he did kill and murder one J. J. Ferguson by shooting him with a shotgun.
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Appeal from District Court, Jackson County; ■ Frank Mathews, Judge. M. M. Brantley was convicted.of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. . M. M. Brantley was tried in the court below upon an information alleging that in said county on or about the 30th day of November, 1914, he did kill and murder one J. J. Ferguson by shooting him with a shotgun. The jury by their verdict found him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and assessed his punishment at imprison- ment in the penitentiary for the term of'28 years. From the judgment rendered in pursuance of the verdict, the…
1Opinion of the CourtDoyle, P. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiff in error was tried in the district court of Jackson county upon an information which, omitting merely formal parts, charges:
“That at and within said county and state, on or about the 30th day of November, A. D. 1914, and anterior to the filing of this information, one M. M. Brantley, of Jackson county, state of Oklahoma, then and there being, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, intentionally, fe-loniously, without authority of law, and with a premeditated design to effect the death of one J. J. Ferguson commit the crime of murder in the…
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