Guthrie v. State

The defendant, Orbie Guthrie, was charged by an information filed in the district court of Oklahoma county with the crime of murder, was tried, found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the first degree, who left the punishment to be fixed by the court. The court thereupon sentenced the defendant to serve a term of 20 years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, and he has appealed.

The defendant, a blind man, was alleged to have shot and killed his former mother-in-law at her home at 915 East Park street, Oklahoma City, Okla., on March 21, 1946.

The daughter of the deceased, Katherine…