Cargill v. State

Guy Cargill, plaintiff in error, here referred to as the defendant, was on September 14, 1920, in the district court of Oklahoma county, convicted of rape in the first degree, and his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment in. the state penitentiary. The defendant’s cause is now here on appeal, and he seeks to have the judgment of the trial court reversed: First, on account of the reception of alleged incompetent testimony; second, because of erroneous instructions given; third, because of improper conduct of the county attorney in his argument to the jury.

The testimony on the part of the…