Hughes v. Territory of Oklahoma

Opinion of the court by

Burwell, J.:

James Hughes was indicted, tried, and convicted in the dictrict court of Washita county for the crime of stealing a cow, and was sentenced to- serve a term in the territorial penitentiary. From this judgment and sentence he appealed to this court, and prays a reversal on account of alleged errors in the instructions.

Thé first instruction that we will consider is as follows: “The law presumes every man to be innocent, when accused of crime, until his guilt is made to appear, to the satisfaction of the jury, by competent evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt;…