State v. Bassnett

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Graves, J.:

On the 14th day of September, 1907, one W. H. Browning was shot and killed in Finney county. John T. Reed and the defendant, T. J. Bassnett, were jointly charged with murder in the first degree on account of such killing. They were tried separately. Reed was tried first and found guilty of murder in the second degree; The defendant was subsequently tried,, and on February 27, 1908, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and on March 28, 1908, was sentenced therefor by the district court of that, county. From that sentence he…