State v. Brotherton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jochems, J.:

The defendant was convicted of second-degree murder, and appeals to this court.

The record shows that the defendant and her two sons, Willie, aged fourteen, and an older boy, lived in a small frame house in Baxter Springs; that her father was a Quapaw Indian; that a girl named Bonnie Davis, sixteen years of age, whose parents lived in Hockerville, Okla., had left home and was working at Baxter Springs; that on the evening of June 11, 1929, Bonnie Davis came to defendant’s home and took Willie, the defendant’s younger son, to a picture show;…