Sharp v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Adair County; B. Y. Nance, Judge. John W. Sharp was convicted of manslaughter, and he brings error.
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Error from District Court, Adair County; B. Y. Nance, Judge. John W. Sharp was convicted of manslaughter, and he brings error. John W. Sharp, the plaintiff in error in this case, was indicted for the crime of murder by a grand jury in the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territorjr, the indictment being filed in open court on the presentment of the grand jury at Sallisaw, in the Northern district of the Indian Territory, on December 12, 1906, and accusing him of having committed the crime of murder ivithin the Northern district of the Indian Territory on the 28th…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Special JiIdge
(after stating the facts as above). This crime was alleged to have been committed prior to statehood, and the defendant charged with the crime of murder by indictment in the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territory, prior to statehood. The case did not come on for trial until after the territory of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory were admitted into the Union as the state of Oklahoma, and until after the Constitution of the state of Oklahoma had been adopted, and the act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907, c. 2911, 34 Stat. 1286, known as…
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