Lazenby v. State

The plaintiff in error, W. H. Laz-enby, hereinafter called the defendant, was informed .against for the murder of Will Davis, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester for a term of four years. To reverse the judgment rendered, he .prosecutes this appeal.

The facts which the evidence tends to establish are as follows: The defendant and the deceased married sisters and with their families lived on their wives’ allotments about eight miles east of Tishomingo. On April 28, 1917, in the absence of the defendant,…