French v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Pauline French, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in the District Court of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, with the offense of Murder and was convicted of the lesser included offense of Manslaughter in the First Degree; her punishment was fixed at fifteen (15) years imprisonment, and from said judgment and sentence, a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

At the trial L. D. Hamlin testified that in November 1970, he was employed as the City Marshall of Porum, Oklahoma, and was a close personal friend of both the defendant and her husband,…