Brannon v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the district court of Osage county upon a charge of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

A brief summary of the facts as gleaned from the record discloses that on the 23rd day of September, 1923, three persons in a Ford coupe came to a filling station at the village of Cooper, in Osage county, where the deceased, Pomp Middlebrook, was in charge. Two of them entered the filling station and attempted to rob it, and Middlebrook, not putting his hands up when ordered, was shot and killed. The slayers then fled. In the first days of October, the…