Hunt v. State

The defendant, Ted Hunt, was charged in the district court of Garvin county with the crime of murder; was tried, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to serve 22 years in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

Two propositions are presented in the brief of the defendant: (1) The judgment is contrary to the law and to the facts. (2) The punishment assessed is excessive.

In the afternoon of August 4, 1942, the defendant, Ted Hunt, age 31, killed Homer Lail, age 36, in a camp ground near the town of Maysville, in Garvin county. Lail was struck by a bullet fired from a…