Sewell v. State

This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction had in the district court of Seminole county, in which appellant, Willie Sewell, was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of 15 years.

It appears that appellant ,and the deceased were Indians; that all the parties concerned lived 7 or 8 miles south of Holdenville, and that they all attended a stomp dance on the night of August 24, 1928; that Eliza, wife of appellant, and the deceased, following the stomp dance went to the home of Taylor Wolfe, where Eliza was…