Tapedo v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Caddo county upon a charge of murder, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life.

The record discloses that defendant was a young man about 24 years of age, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Indians; married to Eloise Patterson, also a member of the tribe. They had living one child about four years of age. Prior to the 17th day of May, 1924, another Indian named Kaulaity had been paying attention to the wife of defendant; she went riding with him and on one occasion spent the night with him at…