State v. Miller

Following a drinking revelry the evening of January 10, 1944, attended by appellant, his sister the deceased, both Indians, several white men and possibly one white woman, about twelve p. m., deceased was shot from the front in the left leg about six inches above the knee, severing the saphenous artery where it divides back of the popliteal space, and fracturing the femur. Found by the police officers within three or four minutes of the shooting, attracted thereby, no first aid was then given deceased; some twenty minutes later she was taken to a hospital and died from shock and loss of blood…