Hudman v. State

The defendant, Clarence Wayne Hud-man, was charged by an information filed in the district court of Tillman county with the crime of murder, was tried, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and pursuant to the verdict of the jury, the defendant was sentenced to serve 30 years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary and has appealed.

This tragedy occurred in the town of Grandfield and involved three young people. The deceased, Beldon Chit-wood Lawson, referred to in the testimony as Babe, was about 20 years of age at the time of the homicide, and had only been back from the Navy about…