Green v. United States
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
On rehearing. On the 6th day of November, 1903, the grand jury of the United States Court for the Central District of the Indian Territory, sitting at Durant, returned an indictment against appellant, G-. W. Green, charging him with the murder of one Martin Liston. The defendant entered his plea of not guilty, and, on the 9th day of March, 1904;, the venue of the cause was changed to the United States Court for the Central District, sitting at Atoka.
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On rehearing. On the 6th day of November, 1903, the grand jury of the United States Court for the Central District of the Indian Territory, sitting at Durant, returned an indictment against appellant, G-. W. Green, charging him with the murder of one Martin Liston. The defendant entered his plea of not guilty, and, on the 9th day of March, 1904;, the venue of the cause was changed to the United States Court for the Central District, sitting at Atoka. On October 20, 1904, the defendant was found guilty of murder, without capital punishment. Motion for a new trial was overruled, and an appeal,…
1Opinion of the Court
CEUGE, Speoial Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The first assignment of error challenges the action of the trial court in excluding certain testimony which the defendant offered to prove to the jury. The prosecution placed upon the witness stand Mrs. Lettie Liston, the wife of the deceased, by whom the defendant offered td prove that, a short time before the killing, she had told the wife of the defendant to tell the defendant that her husband, the deceased, had said “If Mrs. Mahoney (daughter of defendant) ever interferes with you again, if you don’t whip her I will whip you and will…
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