Skeen v. State

The defendant was charged by information in Wagoner county with the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. He was charged with killing one Tildón Tehee, 64 years of age, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, on July 9, 1935; it being charged in the information as follows:

“* * * Did strike, hit and beat, with the fists of him, said Stanton Skeen, and with said hard, blunt weapons, held in said fists, the same being dangerous weapons, as aforesaid, the said Tildón Tehee, in the face, neck, and head of him, the said Tildón Tehee, knocking said Tildón Tehee through said door, then and there open and…