Legal Opinion
Fields v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided May 18, 1955No. A-12120PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POWELL, -Judge.-
The plaintiff in error, Ernest Fiélds; hereinafter referred to as defendant, was on 2 February,-195,4 by information filed in the district court of Tulsa County, charged jointly with Lorenzo Alfonso Hayes with the murder.of Vol Dale Royster,.as a resujft of gunshot wounds, alleged to have beem wilfully inflicted on the body of the deceased on 12 December, 1953. A severance was granted Hayes, and the defendant Fields was tried before a jury, found guilty of murder and with punishment fixed at death in the electric chair in the State Penitentiary at McAlester. Appeal has been…
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