McKellop v. State

Plaintiff in error, Tom McKellop, and Homer Gray, were by information filed in the superior court of Okfuskee county jointly charged with the murder of one Robert Lyles, alleged to have been committed in said county on or about the 29th day of December, 1918. A severance was granted, and upon his separate trial the jury rendered their verdict finding the defendant Tom McKellop guilty of murder as charged in the information and assessing his punishment at imprisonment for life at hard labor. From the judgment rendered in accordance with the verdict on the 19th day of March, 1919, an appeal was…