Kiker v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the superior court of Okmulgee county of the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon on an information charging a crime of assault with intent to kill, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of one year and one day.

The evidence of the state establishes the following facts: That the defendant, Luther Kiker, shot and wounded one Phillip (Jack) Black. Both the defendant and Black were coal miners, and had been working together for several years in the same mines. Defendant had lived in the…