Stokley v. State

LAWSON, Justice.

The appellant, Clinton Stokley, was tried in the circuit court of Choctaw County under an indictment charging that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Jesse M. Morgan, alias Sug Morgan, by striking him with a piece of scantling or a stick. The jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree and fixed defendant’s punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Judgment was in accord with the verdict. Defendant’s motion for a new trial having been denied and overruled, he has appealed to this court.

The evidence for the State tended to show, among other…