Killingsworth v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was by information charged with murder, was tried and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of four years. Motion for a new trial was filed, considered, overruled, and the defendant reserved an exception.

Hex Summerville in substance stated:

“I am an undertaker by profession. In the month of December, 1932, I was working for the Chadwick Funeral Home, in Seminole, Okla. I am a licensed embalmer. I prepared the body of the deceased, J. P.…