Maness v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the superior court of Potta watomie county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of eight years.

The evidence of the state was that deceased was lease superintendent for the Mid-Continent Oil Company; that defendant was a roustabout working for the same company on another lease; that defendant lost his job and was angry at deceased because he thought he was to blame; that defendant said he would “go there and stomp him”; that…