Dick v. State

Plaintiff in error, Taylor Dick, herein referred to as the defendant, was informed against for the murder of H. S. Stevens, alleged to have been committed in Coal county on or about tbe 17th day of June, 1919, by shooting him with a shotgun. The trial jury found him guilty of said charge, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. From the judgment rendered upon the verdict he appeals.

The evidence shows that the defendant, a Choctaw Indian, lived on his wife V allotment, about six miles west of Le-high. The deceased, a white man, lived on a small adjoining farm. Walter Cantrell had a…