Opinion

Morey v. State

  • 6 Okla. Crim. 166
  • 117 P. 774
  • 1911 OK CR 276
  • 1911 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 353
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Sep 19, 1911
Status
Published
Author
Armstrong
On the bench
Armstrong, Furman, Doyle
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 72.3%

The opinion

ARMSTRONG, J.

Plaintiff in error was convicted at the June, 1910, term of the district court of Okmulgee county of the crime of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve 10 years in the state penitentiary on the 1st day of July, 1910. Bail was fixed at $10,000. This was given, and plaintiff in error was discharged

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from custody pending the appeal. Counsel have perfected their appeal and filed their brief, as provided by the statute and the rules of this court.

On July 6, 1911, the Attorney General filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, which motion is as follows:

“Because the said plaintiff in error, Anson W. Morey, is now and has been for more than a year last past a fugitive from justice from the'state of Oklahoma, and that his present residence is unknown; that since this appeal has been pending in this court plaintiff in error has committed another offense, amounting to a felony, against the laws of this state, and immediately after the commission of such offense fled without the bounds of this state and beyond the jurisdiction of this court, and his whereabouts is now unknown, as appears from the affidavit of J. W. Childers, county attorney in and for Okmulgee county, Oklahoma, which is hereto attached, marked /Exhibit A,’ and made a part of this motion, and the affidavit of Sam Higginbotham, deputy sheriff of Okmulgee county, Oklahoma, and the affidavit of J. W. Sullins, one of the board of county commissioners of Okmulgee county, Oklahoma,, hereto attached and marked 'Exhibit B,’ and 'Exhibit C,’ respectively, and made a part of this motion.”

The allegations of the motion to dismiss have not been controverted, and under the rulings of this court we have no alternative, except to dismiss the appeal. The question here raised was determined in the case of

Tyler v. State, 3

Okla. Cr. 179, 104 Pac. 919 , 26 L. R. A. (N. S.) 921. See, also,

Jacobs v. State,

3 Okla. Cr. 648 , 108 Pac. 429 ,

Tydings v. State,

4 Okla. Cr. 659 , 112 Pac. 759 , and

Tanner v. State,

5 Okla. Cr. 298 , 114 Pac. 360 .

Following the rule laid down in the above cases, the appeal in this case is dismissed.

FURMAN, P. J., and DOYLE, J., concur.

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