White v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

Rickey White was convicted of Murder in the First Degree in Choctaw County District Court. Sentence was imposed, as recommended by the jury, of life imprisonment.

The charges arose from the killing of Albert Hopkins, a white bootlegger who lived one mile north of Boswell, Oklahoma. On the evening of his death, November 1, 1981, he went to the back door of his house as he often did to sell liquor. His wife was in the living room where the television was on at a high volume when she heard loud voices, one sounding as that of a young black man. When her husband did not…