Cannon v. Territory
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Blaine County; M. C. Garber, Judge. John Cannon was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and brought error to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, whence the cause was transferred to the Criminal Court of Appeals.
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Error from District Court, Blaine County; M. C. Garber, Judge. John Cannon was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and brought error to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, whence the cause was transferred to the Criminal Court of Appeals. John Cannon, plaintiff in error (hereinafter referred to as the defendant), was indicted in the district court of Garfield county, on December 15, 1906, charged with having murdered one Thomas A. Radford on January 10, 1906. The defendant was duly arraigned, and filed his motion to quash and sét aside the indictment. On January 15, 1907, upon a hearing…
1Opinion of the Court
DOYLE, Judge,
(after stating the facts as above). The record of the proceedings in the trial court is voluminous, consisting of over 900 pages without an index. We have, however, carefully examined the entire record, together with the several assignments of error, which counsel for the defendant, in their brief and argument, group into three assignments, which we will now consider, and state our conclusions thereon in the order named and argued in the defendant’s brief.
The first assignment is “error of the court in its instructions to the jury.” The court instructed the jury as to the…
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