Davis v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Blaine county of murder, and his punishment fixed at death.

The information, in the usual form, charges murder in that defendant on June 25, 1931, did shoot and kill Guy Jarvis. At the time charged, Jarvis, a deputy sheriff, accompanied by another deputy, went to the residence of one Dobbins, a negro, at whose house defendant, also a negro, was at the time. Complaint had been made of the theft of some gasoline the night before, and the car in which the stolen gas apparently had been transported was…