Hamit v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was tried in the district court of Garvin county on a charge of murder and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of six years in the state penitentiary at McAlester. Motion for new trial was filed, considered, and overruled, exceptions duly saved, and the case appealed to this court.

The testimony on behalf of the state, in substance, is as follows: Dr. N. H. Lindsay testified as to the effects of the wounds upon the body of the deceased, and stated they were sufficient to produce death.

T. G. Readnour testified…