Berry v. State

POWELL, Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Amlean Berry, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged by information filed in the district court of Oklahoma County with murder, was tried before a jury, who found him guilty of the included offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of sixty years.

Counsel summarizes the evidence of some six witnesses for the State and three, including the defendant, for the defendant, as follows:

“Leroy Williams was killed on or about the 17th day of February, 1957; that on the…