Holt v. Territory of Oklahoma
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Kingfisher County. The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Kingfisher county, charged with the murder of one William Fowler in that county on the 12th day of July, 1894, and on trial before the jury he was convicted and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment at hard labor for life. Judgment was rendered accordingly upon the verdict, from which judgment the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bierer, J.:
The defendant claims that he was erroneously convicted and sentenced for the commission of the crime of murder, and he alleges error in fifty-eight different assignments; the most important question presented, and the one which is always entitled to primary consideration, being as to the sufficiency of the indictment to sustain the conviction*had and the judgment entered.
The indictment, which was returned to the district-court of Kingfisher county on October 12, 1894, and on which the defendant was convicted and sentenced for-murder, is as…
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