Collier v. State

Plaintiff in error James Albert Collier, Jr., defendant below, was charged by information on March 18, 1950 in the district court of Comanche county, Oklahoma, with the crime of the murder of one Clayton Dale Elkins in Lawton, Comanche county, Oklahoma, on February 12, 1950. The crime was allegedly committed by means of a certain shotgun which the said Collier unlawfully, wrongfully, with malicious and felonious intent discharged into the body of the said Elkins inflicting wounds from which Elkins lingered and died. Defendant was tried by a jury, convicted of first degree manslaughter, his…