Woods v. State

The plaintiff in error, Thomas Woods, who will hereinafter be referred to as defendant, was charged in information in the district court of Pittsburg county with the crime of murder, was tried before a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, and judgment and sen tence in accordance was duly entered. Appeal has been perfected to this court.

The defendant at the time of the tragedy was an inmate of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, and the state furnished him with two able and experienced attorneys to conduct his defense, and the record in…