Dickson v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Presiding Judge:

Appellant, John W. Dickson, was tried by jury in Custer County District Court, Case No. CRF-84-172 and convicted of Murder in the Second Degree in violation of 21 O.S.1981, § 701.8. The trial court set punishment at thirty years’ imprisonment in accordance with the jury’s verdict. From this judgment and sentence, appellant has perfected his appeal to this Court.

On November 15, 1984, appellant ran to the house of a neighbor, Geraldine Carr, and asked for assistance. Carr told her husband to call an ambulance and then ran next door with appellant. The deceased, Ann…