Owens v. State

Upon information filed in the district court of Pottawatomie county October 3, 1935, in substance charging that in said county on the 30th day of November, 1933', Bill Owens did unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously shoot and kill one Hoyt Hughes, the defendant was tried and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree; the jury by their verdict fixing his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 20 years. A new trial having been denied, he appealed from the judgment pronounced in pursuance of the verdict by filing in this court on June 15, 1936, a case-made with…