Thompson v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Tulsa county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for four years.

The evidence of the state was that on the 4th day of June, 1929, the defendant and deceased engaged in a quarrel over the larceny of an automobile tire; the deceased accused the defendant of stealing the tire and brought him .to the place of the homicide for identification; that when defendant was not identified, thereupon deceased said: “If you don’t…