Bethel v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge.

Gordon Reevis Bethel, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in the District Court of Oklahoma County with the offense of Murder; he was convicted of the offense of Manslaughter in the First Degree. Punishment was fixed at forty-five years imprisonment, and from said judgment and sentence, a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

At the trial, Officer Smith testified that in answer to a call on August 30, 1969, at 7:37 p. m., he went to 740 Southeast Forty-First Street in Oklahoma City concerning a knife fight. The defendant met him at the door, and…