Wallace v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was by information charged with murder, was convicted, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, at McAlester, Okla.

The testimony of the state shows the shooting, occurred on a public street in the city of Hobart, in what is kno wn as the negro section of the city. The killing occurred on Sunday night, the 27th of July, 1930. The proof shows the defendant armed himself with a Winchester rifle, and went out on the street near what is known as a Holiness negro church, while services were being…