State v. Friday

Appellants were prosecuted for the murder of a deputy sheriff, and were found guilty of manslaughter.

The deputy sheriff, with an assistant named Reeder, was attempting to arrest the three defendants on the belief that they were transporting intoxicating liquor, or was attempting to search the automobile in which they and Poley Friday, a brother of the defendant, Len Friday, were riding, at the time of the killing. Len Friday shot and killed the deputy sheriff. The defense was that Friday acted in defense of his brother, Poley, who was killed by the deputy sheriff. Whether the first shot was…