Tippit v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Bill Tippit, Jr., defendant beiow, was charged by information in the District Court of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, with the crime of manslaughter in the second degree, 21 O.S.19S1 § 716, in effecting the instant death of James Don Wood, an infant, on August 27, 1957, by-means of an automobile driven by Tippit at an excessive rate of speed in violation of a city ordinance. Therein it was further alleged he recklessly ran over said child on Hickory Street in McAlester, Oklahoma, in said county and state, tie was tried by a jury, convicted, and his…