Hisaw v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Haskell County; W. H. Brown, Judge. Bob Hisaw was convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life, and appeals. On the 13th of February, 1912, Virgil (commonly called Rex) Ray and his wife, Lizzie Ray, who had been married about a month previous to that date, separated. They had been living in a little one-room log house in the Hisaw neighborhood of Haskell county.
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Appeal from District Court, Haskell County; W. H. Brown, Judge. Bob Hisaw was convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life, and appeals. On the 13th of February, 1912, Virgil (commonly called Rex) Ray and his wife, Lizzie Ray, who had been married about a month previous to that date, separated. They had been living in a little one-room log house in the Hisaw neighborhood of Haskell county. Rex Ray was a tenant farmer, and prior to his marriage and up to the time of said separation had off and on worked' for the defendant Bob Hisaw; the defendant being a farmer and stock raiser…
1Opinion of the CourtMatson, J.
(after stating the facts as above). The regularly elected county attorney being disqualified' by reason of having been employed by the defendant as counsel in his defense, prior to his election to the office of county attorney, the regular district judge of the district while holding court in another county in the district appointed Mr. Guy A. Curry, an attorney of the Haskell county bar, as special prosecuting attorney in this cáse. This appointment was made some two years after the return of the indictment; the special prosecutor being appointed merely for the purpose of preparing the…
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