Henson v. State

The defendant, W. H. Henson, was charged by an information filed in the district court of Seminole county with the crime of murder; was tried, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and, pursuant to the verdict of the jury, was sentenced to serve 20 years imprisonment in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

Timmie McGirt, an Indian, was employed by the Mid-Gontinent Petroleum Corporation at Cromwell. On June 26, 1951, as he and J. W. Harper, another employee of the oil company, were leaving the plant, the defendant, W. H. Henson,' drove up in his automobile, jumped from his car, pointed…