Scott v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, in the district court in Tulsa county, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to serve a term of 12 years in the state penitentiary.

The record discloses that at the time charged defendant, a negro, had a difficulty with Ned Scarborough, another negro, in which Scarborough was cut with a pocket knife from the effects of which he died. The evidence as to the origin and the course of the difficulty is conflicting; that for the state indicating that defendant provoked the difficulty and engaged with deceased in the…