Quinton v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Pittsburg county of the crime of murder, and Ms punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life.

The information charged that defendant on the 5th day of April, 1931, murdered one George Smoot, a young man about seventeen or eighteen years of age, at a dance at the home of one Will .Strain, in Pittsburg county; that defendant killed Smoot by stabbing him with a butcher knife; that Smoot was out on the screened porch, where there was no light; that defendant got a butcher…