Kizer v. State

On rehearing, the petition of the defendant for rehearing is sustained, and the law and facts reconsidered.

Joe Kizer was by information jointly charged with John Kizer in the district court of Choctaw county with the crime of murder; was tried separately; convicted of manslaughter in the first degree; and sentenced to serve a term of 50 years in the state penitentiary.

Motion for a new trial was filed, considered, overruled, exceptions saved, and the defendant has appealed.

The case of the defendant, Joe Kizer, was called for trial on the 7th day of April, 1937. Hal Welch, as a special…