Ward v. State

BRETT, Judge:

Arley Ward, plaintiff in error herein, was first tried in the district court of Tulsa County in 1947, on a charge of murder. The information alleged that on June 22, 1947 near Sand Springs, Oklahoma, he shot his brother-in-law, Earl Newell, with a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson pistol. Newell died two days later, on June 24th.

After two days of trial, Arley Ward withdrew his “not guilty” plea, and entered a plea of “guilty” to first degree manslaughter. Thereafter he was sentenced to serve forty years in. the State Penitentiary. The appeal from that conviction is found in Ward v.…