Griffin v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Beck-ham county of the crime of murder, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life..Joe Pounds, Jess Brown, and defendant were jointly-charged with the murder of O. H. Phillips, sheriff of Beck-ham county. Pounds entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state reformatory at Granite. A severance was granted and defendant Jess Brown put upon trial first. The jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment in the…