Feil v. State

The defendant, G. Feil, was charged in the district court of Texas county with the crime of murder; was tried, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, with the punishment left to the court. The trial court thereupon sentenced the defendant to serve a term of eight years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, and the defendant has appealed.

The defendant was a resident of Hooker, and, at the time of the homicide, was. deputy sheriff of Texas county.

On the night of February 19, 1943, a basketball game was played in Hooker between the high school teams of Hooker and Guymon. After the…