Shepherd v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Pawnee county, on change of venue from Tulsa county, of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to serve a term of 35 years in the state penitentiary.

In August, 1929, one Robert Hatcher was shot and killed in the apartment of Alice Andrews in Tulsa. She was a stenographer who for a short time had been in the employ of defendant. Hatcher was paying her some attention and they had been engaged to marry. Defendant, a married man, was in the real estate business. A few days before the homicide,…