Crowell v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Okmulgee county on a charge of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed by the jury at 12 years in the penitentiary.

The state contended that the defendant was guilty of murder, and offered evidence in support of such theory tending to show: That the defendant and Willie Bruner, deceased, had been neighbors for a number of years and were friends. That the defendant, who lived ón a farm near the deceased, was running a public dance on his place, and that dances were held in the barn every Saturday night…