Stuart v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

Appellant, Larry Wayne Stuart, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Canadian County, Case No. CR-72-44, for the offense of Manslaughter in the First Degree. His punishment was fixed at life imprisonment, and from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

For several months defendant had lived in a house at 1509 East Rogers in El Reno, Oklahoma, with a woman by the name of Lewellyn Norton, the sister of the deceased. They were apparently happy together until the release from prison…