Brown v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Tulsa county of manslaughter in the first degree, and was sentenced to serve 99 years in the state penitentiary.

At the time charged, defendant engaged in a difficulty with one Alva Shanks, which took place at defendant’s home, in the course of which he inflicted some fifteen knife wounds on the person of Shanks which completely disabled him. Two bystanders went a distance of some seven miles for a physician, and when they returned Shanks was dead with two axe ivounds, one of which had severed the…