Lady v. State

This is an appeal from the superior court of Okmulgee county wherein, on the 22d day of February, 1918, defendant, Hector Lady, was sentenced to serve a term of four years in the state penitentiary for the crime of manslaughter in the first degree for killing one Silas Grier in said county on the evening of the 24th day of December, 1917, near the town of Preston in said county. Two grounds of reversal are relied upon (1) The alleged insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction; (2) alleged erroneous instructions given by the trial court over the objection and exception of…