Petty v. State

BRETT, Judge.

The Plaintiff in Error, Homer Petty, defendant below, was charged by information, in the District Court of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, with the crime of Murder, T. 21 § 701, O.S.1951, allegedly committed on-November 4th, 1953, against -the person of one Henry Rains, by means of a knife, inflicting fatal wounds from which Rains died, all of which things occurred in the aforesaid County and State. The defendant was tried by a' jury, convicted, ‘ his ’ punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, T. 21 § 707, O.S.1951; judgment and sentence was entered accordingly,…