Thomas v. State

On the 4th day of September, 1920, in the district court of Le Flore county, Okla., Eli Thomas was sentenced to suffer death for the murder of Selma Mayfield, 'and a death warrant was issued on that day directing the execution of the judgment and sentence on November 23,1920. Afterwards execution was stayed by executive order until December 23, 1920. On December 20, 1920, within the time provided by law, the defendant appealed from the judgment and sentence of the trial court by filing herein his petition in error with a duly authenticated transcript of the record of the case below, and…