Drury v. Territory of Oklahoma

Opinion of the court by

Burford, C. J.:

The defendant, Drury, and one Cran-dall, were tried and convicted for the crime of murder. Drury appeals to this court. The first contention of. plaintiff in error is that the court erred in overruling the demurrer to the indictment. The indictment, after the formal parts, charges as follows-:

“That John W. Crandall and Joseph Drury, late of said county, on the fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in the said county of Garfield, Territory of Oklahoma, in an-d upon on-e John McCoy, then and there…