Wingfield v. State

Defendant, Charles Thomas Wingfield, was charged in the district court of Muskogee county, with the crime of murder, was tried, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at 25 years in the State Penitentiary. From this judgment and sentence he has appealed.

It is unnecessary, in order to properly dispose of this case, to consider all the errors assigned, but the con- elusion which we have reached necessitates a short statement of the facts, as revealed by the record.

The defendant was charged with murder in connection with the killing of Edward E. Kucza, age 21…