Martin v. State

BUSSEY, Judge.

Frank Naceo Martin was charged in the District Court of Oklahoma County with the crime of Murder. He was tried by a jury who found him guilty of Manslaughter in the First Degree, and assessed his punishment at nine and one-half years in the State Penitentiary, and he appeals.

There are a number of assignments of error urged on appeal which we will treat in the order in which they occurred in the pre-trial proceedings and during the trial, and not necessarily in the order in which they were presented in the brief of the plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant.

Defen…