Dykes v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Johnston County; Robt. M. Rainey, Judge. W. L. Dykes was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
The plaintiff in error, W. L. Dykes, was placed on trial at the October, 1911, term of the district court of Johnston county on a charge of murder, and was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. The punishment was fixed at fifteen years in the state penitentiary.
The homicide, which is the basis for the judgment of conviction in this case, occurred on the 35th day of May, 1911, in a remote and out of the way district, and near a place called Devil’s Den, in Johnston county, Oklahoma. The material facts, as given in evidence by the various witnesses called, are practically as follows:
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