Opinion of the Judges

In response to a communication submitted by the Governor, the following opinion was submitted by DOYLE, Judge:

Hon. Chas. N Haskell, Governor of the State of Oklahoma:

The Criminal Court of Appeals, responding to your official communication of December 8th inst. addressed to this court, accompanied by a statement of the conviction and judgment and a transcript of the testimony, in the case of the State of Oklahoma v. John Black, being case No. 205, in the district court of Hughes county, Okla., wherein said defendant upon his trial was by the verdict of the jury found guilty of murder, and the…