Frey v. State

The defendant George Albert Frey was charged by an information filed in the district court of Osage county with the crime of manslaughter in the second degree, was tried, found guilty by verdict of the jury, but the punishment to be assessed was left to the discretion of the court. Thereafter, the defendant was sentenced to serve six months’ imprisonment in the county jail and has appealed.

The evidence showed that on April 22, 1951, Lyle George Gleason was driving his 1947 DeSoto two-door sedan automobile from Claremore to Pawhuska. Riding in the ear with Gleason were his wife, a stepson, two…