State v. Holbrook
Oregon Supreme Court
From Klamath.: Delmon V. Kuykendall, Judge. In Banc. Under an indictment charging them with the crime of murder in the second degree by killing O. T. Mc-Kendree, the defendants were convicted of manslaughter, dissatisfied with which, they appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The scene of the homicide described in the indictment is Dry Prairie, a plateau approximately four or five miles square, in Klamath County. There are some ridges in the plain, and it *50is surrounded by wooded hills. In the immediate vicinity of the killing, tussocks of short grass were growing in a sandy soil, about six inches apart on the average. It • was a suitable place for keeping sheep during the lambing season. The decedent was the owner of a band of about 2,500 sheep, in charge of a Spaniard named Jim Santiago, who, it appears, claimed a one-fourth interest therein under a contract for…
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