Porter v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the superior court of Okmulgee county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for seven years.

Counsel for defendant makes no contention that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of the jury.

Defendant raises but one question, and that is that the court erred in failing to instruct the jury that the injury complained of must be the proximate cause of the death, and particularly complains of instruction No. 13.

In the case of…