Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Garvin County; R. McMillan, Judge. Ben Williams was found guilty in the district court of Gar-vin county of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment was fixed by the jury at confinement in the penitentiary for the period of four years.
1Opinion of the CourtFurman, J.
First. The record in this case contains about 800 pages of typewritten matter. Seventeen witnesses testified for the state and thirty-two witnesses testified for the appellant. So far as the merits of this case are concerned, the testimony as a whole constitutes a hopeless and irreconcilable maze of contradictions, but it is agreed by all that on Sunday afternoon, the 23d day of October, 1910, there was a negro baptizing near Hennepin, in Garvin county, Okla., and that after the religions ceremonies were over and the crowd had dispersed a fight with pistols occurred on the public road between…
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- Henry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1911
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