Lakes v. State

The plaintiff in error, Leland J. Lakes, was convicted of murder in the district court of Oklahoma county, upon an information charging that in said county, on or about the 14th day of March, 1935, he did kill and murder Arthur Heenan, by shooting him with a pistol. The jury assessed his punishment at death. A new trial was denied, and, in pursuance to the verdict of the jury, he was sentenced to suffer death by electrocution. From the judgment pronounced and entered on the 21st day of October, 1935, he appealed by filing in this court on March 14,1936, a petition in error with case-made.

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