Turner v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Tulsa county on a charge of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for eight years. Motion for new trial was filed, overruled, and exceptions saved, and. the case is now on appeal in this court.

The defendant complains, first, that the trial court erred in receiving the verdict. The case was tried by Hon. A. C. Brewster, a district judge, who was not a resident district judge, but who was assigned by order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to…