Tinney v. State

Defendant, Luke Tinney, was convicted in the district court of Tillman county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree for killing one Thomas Jackson in said county on the 27th day of February, 1917, and was sentenced to serve a term of seven years’ imprisonment in the reformatory at Granite, Okla.

It is first contended that the trial court erred in not excluding from service upon the jury one M. F. Cason, for the reason that the said juror entertained conscientious scruples against the infliction of the death penalty, which fact was made known to the court after the juror had been…