Legal Opinion
United States v. Wood
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 29, 2000No. 99-7008PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
C. Douglas Wood is a physician who, in 1998, was indicted for the first-degree murder of Virgil Dykes, a patient under his care at the Veterans Administration hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The case was tried to a jury, and submitted on charges of first-degree murder and the lesser included offenses of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. A verdiet was entered acquitting Dr. Wood of the first and second-degree murder charges, but convicting him of involuntary manslaughter. The case comes to us for review on direct appeal. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant…
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