Stilwell Resident Sentenced To Ten Years For Voluntary Manslaughter

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Mose Adam Smith, age 43, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 121 months in prison for one count of Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country, to be followed by three years of Supervised Release.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office, the Grant County, Wisconsin Sheriff's Office, and the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory.

On April 10, 2025, Smith was found guilty by a federal jury at trial. According to investigators, on July 17, 2023, Smith struck the victim during an altercation at the victim's Sallisaw residence. The victim died from blunt force trauma and injuries sustained in the fight. Smith and co-defendant Kimberly Dawn Ball-Gilbert fled the state in the victim's truck and were apprehended ten days later by law enforcement in Illinois. The crime occurred in Sequoyah County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

On March 19, 2025, Ball-Gilbert, age 42, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to an Information of one count of Voluntary Manslaughter. At her plea hearing, Ball-Gilbert admitted to aiding and abetting Smith's actions in causing the victim's death. Sentencing for Ball-Gilbert has not yet been scheduled.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing. Smith will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Patrick M. Flanigan and Lewis M. Reagan represented the United States.