Tate v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was prosecuted in the district court of Creek county on a charge of murder, the jury finding him guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and fixing, his punishment at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for 2 years.

Defendant was city marshal of the town of Mann-ford in Creek county and claimed to be a deputy sheriff. He at the time of the commission of this homicide was patrolling the state highway, known as the Albert Pike highway in the vicinity of Mannford. The deceased was a young man about 21 years of age who had gone to Tulsa…