Denton v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of murder and his punishment fixed at death.

The information alleges that on the 15th day of May, 1931, defendant shot and killed one John O. Peters. A very brief statement of the facts is all we deem necessary. The voluminous record discloses that defendant, twenty-two years of age, married Mildred Gozart. That some few months after the marriage he developed syphilis, which he claims to have contracted from his wife. Some time later the wife sued for divorce. Defendant entered an…