Owens v. State

The plaintiffs in error, hereinafter called defendants, were convicted in the district court of Jackson county of preventing and dissuading witnesses who had been duly subpoenaed from attending court. Defendant Pope was sentenced to serve a term of one year and one day in the penitentiary, and defendant Owens was sentenced to' pay a fine of $200.

Defendants were prosecuted under section 1647, Comp. St. 1921. The record discloses that D. C. Pope, Jones Eakin, and Lee Blair were charged in the district court of Jackson county with rape; that Carrie Turner and Zeke Turner were material witnesses…