Collins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Pittsburg County; Ernest B. Hughes, Assigned Judge. John Collins was convicted in the district court of Pittsburg county of the crime of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, and appeals. Samuel Corbin was killed on the 14th day of July, 1916, at his little store near Cole’s Crossing on the Wilbur-ton branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad in Pittsburg county, Okla.
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Appeal from District Court, Pittsburg County; Ernest B. Hughes, Assigned Judge. John Collins was convicted in the district court of Pittsburg county of the crime of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, and appeals. Samuel Corbin was killed on the 14th day of July, 1916, at his little store near Cole’s Crossing on the Wilbur-ton branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad in Pittsburg county, Okla. The building was located a short distance from the south side of the railroad on a little hill and faced north. ' Corbin lived there alone and conducted a small…
1Opinion of the CourtMatson, J.
(after stating the facts as above). It is first contended that the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a continuance on account of the absence of Jack Benson and Jim McKinney, two witnesses for the defendant whose testimony is alleged to have been material, in that it would have tended to establish the alibi, the defense interposed in behalf of defendant.
The case was first set for trial on the 2d day of October, 1916, at which time the motion for a continuance was interposed, and at that time the case was continued until the 12th day of October, 1916, in order to give the…
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