Greenwood v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Haskell county of manslaughter in the first degree, and was sentenced to serve a term of 25 years in the state penitentiary.

The record discloses that defendant and his son, Orville Greenwood, lived near the town of Keota, and near them lived Sam McCann, Henry McCann, A. W. Piatt, their stepfather, and T. A. Lowe, a friend of the McCanns. Sam McCann bore an unenviable reputation as being of a domineering disposition and a lawbreaker. The reputation of Henry McCann was attacked to some 'extent. The…