Johnson v. State

POWELL, Judge.

Geneva Johnson was charged by information in the district court of Choctaw County with the crime of murder, and the jury found her guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and assessed her punishment at ten years confinement in the State Penitentiary at McAlester.

Appeal was perfected to this court by the filing on March 19, 1957 of petition in error and casemade. No brief in support of the appeal was ever filed, and no one appeared for oral argument when the case was called for hearing for such purpose on May 29, 1957.

Under the above circumstances, it will not be necessary to…