Collier v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Pontotoc County; F. B. Swank, Assigned Judge. ' D. A. Collier was convicted of murder, and lie appeals. The information charged that in Pontotoc, county, on the 21st day of May, 1916, D. A. Collier did then and there kill one C. H. McFerron, by shooting him with a pistol. It appears that C. OH. McFerron, the deceased, was a pharmacist, employed in Busby’s Drug Store in the town of Allen.
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Appeal from District Court, Pontotoc County; F. B. Swank, Assigned Judge. ' D. A. Collier was convicted of murder, and lie appeals. The information charged that in Pontotoc, county, on the 21st day of May, 1916, D. A. Collier did then and there kill one C. H. McFerron, by shooting him with a pistol. It appears that C. OH. McFerron, the deceased, was a pharmacist, employed in Busby’s Drug Store in the town of Allen. On the date named, Sunday afternoon, about 2 o’clock, the defendant, Collier, shot and killed C. H. McFer-ron in said drug store. Dr. Dullock testified that he heard the shots…
1Opinion of the CourtDoyle, P. J.
(after stating the facts as above). Plaintiff in error, D. A. Collier, was informed against for the murder of C. H. McFerron, and upon his trial was found guilty of murder and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life at hard labor.
From the judgment of conviction, an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.
The errors assigned are based upon exceptions taken to the rulings of the court upon evidence offered and rejected, and upon instructions given to the jury as to the law of the case, all of which, after verdict, were set out as grounds of a motion for new trial:
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