Locke v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge.

The appellant, Dalton Leon Locke, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Logan County, case No. CRF-74-64, for the crime of Murder in the Second Degree. From a sentence of ten (10) years to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary, the defendant brings this timely appeal.

Dr. Tommy L. Hewett testified that in his capacity as Oklahoma County Medical Examiner, he had an occasion to examine the body of William R. Deadwiley, on October 27, 1974. He stated the death was caused by a gunshot wound of the head and that he…