Williams v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Edward Leon Williams, defendant below, was charged by information in the District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, with the admitted crime of kidnapping, committed on December 17, 1956, against one Tommy Robert Cooke in the aforesaid county and state, in violation of 21 O.S.1951 § 745. Defendant first entered a plea of not guilty, but several days subsequent thereto withdrew the same and entered a plea of guilty before Honorable Leslie W. Webb, Judge of the District Court. On the plea of guilty, the defendant was sentenced to death in the electric…