Easterling v. State

JONES, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Lillian Easterling, was charged by an information filed in -the District Court of Pontotoc County with the crime of murder, was tried, convicted of-manslaughter in the--first-degree’ and sentenced to serve 10 years in the penitentiary.

- This is the-second appeal to this court by the accused involving this particular charge. The former conviction was reversed and remanded for new trial because, of the erroneous wording of two instructions. Easterling v. State, Okl.Cr., 267 P.2d 185. A summary of the evidence was given in the former opinion and since the…