Evans v. State

Appellant, Will Evans, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, on an information which charged that in Wagoner county, on or about the 30th day of June, 1922, he did kill and murder one Selma Selby. The jury failed to agree upon the punishment. By the judgment of the court he was sentenced to a term of 20 years in the penitentiary. To reverse the judgment he has appealed to this court.

It appears that appellant and deceased were both employed on a farm nea,r Haskell; deceased was overseer of this farm and appellant employed as a farm hand. They had been old acquaintances in Texas,…