Willoughby v. Territory of Oklahoma

Opinion of the court by

Pancoast, J'.:

On August 15, 1904, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury of Oklahoma county for the crime of murder, and on the 12th day of December following, after - demurrer and motion to quash the indictment had been overruled, a trial was had upon the indictment, a verdict of guilty of murder was returned by the jury, and the plaintiff in error was sentenced to life imprisonment in the territorial penitentiary, from which judgment of conviction he appeals to this court, assigning two grounds of error.

The first is that the court erred in submitting tbe…