Ryan v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was by information charged with the crime of murder, was tried and convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, and was sentenced to be confined in the state penitentiary for a period of four years From which judgment and sentence the defendant has appealed to this court.

The testimony on behalf of the state tends to show that on the 26th day of December, 1925, the defendant, while driving on the highway near Anadarko, in Caddo county, while intoxicated, struck a buggy in which Amanda Campbell was riding with such force that it threw her…