Pickard v State

Pickard v State
1920 OK CR 213
192 P. 432
18 Okl.Cr. 709
Decided: 11/17/1920
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from District Court, Cherokee County; E.B. Arnold, Judge.

W.A. Pickard and Sarah Pickard, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, appeal. Appeal dismissed.

J.I. Coursey, W.E. Foreman, and W.H. Kisner, for plaintiffs in error.

The Attorney General and W.C. Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM. The plaintiffs in error were tried and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and their punishment assessed at 10 years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, upon an information charging that in Cherokee county, on or about the 11th day of February, 1919, W.A. Pickard and Sarah Pickard did kill and murder one Virgil Hutchens with deadly weapons, to wit, a certain pistol and certain

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knives and certain large rocks, and on the 23rd day of September, 1919, the court rendered judgment and sentence in accordance with the verdict, from which judgment the defendant appealed by filing in this court on March 19, 1920, a petition in error with case-made.

On September 22, 1920, their counsel of record filed a motion asking that their appeal herein be dismissed, which motion was duly served on the county attorney of Cherokee county and the Attorney General.