De Bose v. State

The material matter about which there is no conflict was that the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, and the prosecuting witness, Jim Freeman, both of whom are negroes, lived south of Kellyville, in Creek county, about 2 1-2 miles apart; that each had married the other’s sister, and prior to the alleged offense there had been bitter ill-feeling existing between them, growing out of family aft airs, resulting in the separation of the defendant and his wife.

It appears from this record that some members of the family favored the defendant. The mother of the defendant and his…