Owens v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

Mickey Allen Owens, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Pittsburg County, Case No. F-77-18, of the offense of Murder in the Second Degree. He was given an indeterminate sentence of ten (10) years to life imprisonment, and from that judgment and sentence an appeal has been perfected to this Court.

On March 5, 1976, Sammy Yackeyonny was found dead in his cell at the Oklahoma State penitentiary. An autopsy performed that day revealed the cause of death to be multiple stab wounds. Frank Bourland, an agent of the Oklahoma…