Opinion

Barnoskie v. State

  • 26 Okla. Crim. 19
  • 221 P. 516
  • 1924 OK CR 3
  • 1924 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 2
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Jan 10, 1924
Status
Published
Author
Doyle
On the bench
Doyle, Matson, Bessey
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 0.2%

The opinion

DOYLE, J.

Plaintiff in error, Cat Barnoskie, was tried for murder upon an information charging that in Sequoyah county on or about December 26, 1921, he did kill and murder one Roland Kenned, by shooting him with a shotgun. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of four years. From the judgment rendered in pursuance of the verdict, an appeal was perfected by filing in this court October 30, 1922, a petition in error, with case-made.

His counsel of record have filed a motion to dismiss his appeal, for the reason that on the 6th day of January, 1923, the said Cat Barnoskie was granted a full, complete, and unconditional pardon for the offense of which he was convicted. A duly certified copy of said pardon is attached1 to the motion to dismiss, which pardon was signed by Hon. J. B. A. Robertson, then Governor, and is duly and properly attested and1 authenticated by Hon. Joe S. Morris, then secretary of state, under the great seal of the state.

By numerous decisions of this court it is held that, when an appeal from a judgment of conviction is pending in this court, and the plaintiff in error applies for a pardon, and the same has been granted, and the fact that a pardon has been granted1 is brought to the attention of this court, the appeal will be dismissed. Ernst v. State, 17 Okla. Cr. 282 , 187 Pac. 930 ; Brown v. State, 16 Okla. 505 , 184 Pac. 912 ; Ballew v.

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State, 15 Okla. Cr. 645 , 179 Pac. 945 . It follows that the motion to dismiss the appeal is well founded.

It is therefore considered, adjudged, and ordered that this appeal be and the same is hereby dismissed, and the cause remanded' to the trial court.

MATSON, P. J., and BESSEY, J., concur.

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