Elkins v. State

On the night of December 29, 1922, the plaintiff in error shot and killed J. H. Ferguson on West California street, Oklahoma City. The killing took place at a rooming house kept 'by Mrs. Rosa Walker. It appears that plaintiff in error and the deceased Ferguson had formerly been associated together as private detectives, and had had a misunderstanding or difficulty, and had not met for some little time before the night of the homicide. On that night the deceased Ferguson, Judge Wright, and Mrs. Reeves went to the rooming house, and later the plaintiff in error came there. There is a wide…