Grimes v. State

BRETT, Judge.

This is an appeal by Billy E. Grimes, who was convicted in the district court of Cotton County, .Oklahoma, on March 31, 1960 on a charge of the murder of his father, George L. Grimes, allegedly committed on December 3, 1959'. The case was tried to a jury, and on its finding of guilty, judgment and sentence was entered April 14, 1960, from which this appeal has been perfected.

As briefly as possible, the facts developed on purely circumstantial evidence are substantially as hereinafter set forth.

It appears that the twenty-year old defendant saw his parents on Thanksgiving day,…