Marshall v. State

The plaintiff in error, J. J. Marshall, was tried at the January, 1913, term of the district court of Tillman county on a charge of murder and convicted of the included offense of manslaughter in the second degree. I-Iis punishment was fixed at a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of 90 days.

This was a most unfortunate and uncalled for homicide. The deceased was a man 56 years old. The accused is now about 77 years old. It appears that in December, 1912, the deceased was working for the accused in Tillman county, Okla.; that on the afternoon of the homicide they…