Oklahoma Criminal Reports: Cases Determined in the Criminal Court of Appeals of the State of Oklahoma, Volume 14Leader Print. Company, 1918 - Criminal law |
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11 Okla accused adultery affidavit affirmed alleged Appeal from County Appeal from District Art Tucker assault Asst Atty Bryan county Caddo county Carriker Carter county cause Choctaw county committed concur contended counsel county attorney county court county jail court erred crime criminal deceased defendant defendant's demurrer discloses district court DOYLE evidence examination facts felony fendant Fred Spencer Garvin county Greer county guilty held homicide imprisonment indictment information charges instructions intent intoxicating liquors John Samples Judge judgment of conviction jurisdiction juror jury kill libel McMillan ment motion mules murder Muskogee county Oklahoma Oklahoma county Opinion Filed overruled party penitentiary person plaintiff in error proof prosecuting witness punishment question reason record reversed Roy Crane S. P. Freeling sheriff shot Smith statement statute sufficient supra sustain Syllabus testified testimony tion trial court unlawful unlawfully verdict violation Washita county whisky
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Page 296 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless he be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if It merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 59 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed.
Page 64 - A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases the punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense.
Page 280 - For the existence of a state of mind on the part of the juror, in reference to the case, or to either party ? which satisfies the triers, in the exercise of a sound discretion, that he cannot try the issue impartially and without prejudice to the substantial rights of the party challenging, and which is known in this code as actual bias.
Page 384 - All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it be felony or misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or, not being present, have advised and encouraged its commission...
Page 326 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment
Page 91 - Upon a trial for murder, the commission of the homicide by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that justify or excuse it, devolves upon him, unless the proof on the part of the prosecution tends to show that the crime committed only amounts to manslaughter, or that the defendant was justifiable or excusable.
Page 232 - State shall, by virtue of their office, be conservators of the peace throughout the State. The style of all writs and process shall be "The State of Texas.
Page 239 - When a public offense is committed in part in one county and in part in another, or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, the jurisdiction is in either county.
Page 231 - No person shall be prosecuted criminally in courts of record for felony or misdemeanor otherwise than by presentment or indictment or by information. No person shall be prosecuted for a felony by information without having had a preliminary examination before an examining magistrate, or having waived such preliminary examination.