President v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

The appellant, Alfred Benjamin President, was charged in the District Court of Tulsa County in Case No. CRF-78-31 with the offense of Murder in the Second . Degree. He was tried by a jury, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

Only a brief statement of facts is necessary to the resolution of this case. On January 3, 1978, at 3:05 p. m., several officers of the Tulsa Police Department arrived at 20 E. 17th Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They discovered the body of Emily Diane Cato, a 28-year-old woman who had died as the result of a number of…