# Buis v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · May 14, 1990 · 792 P.2d 427

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9627524

## Case

- **Full name:** William Craig BUIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** May 14, 1990
- **Citations:** 792 P.2d 427; 1990 OK CR 28; 1990 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 25; 1990 WL 62054
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Parks
- **Judges:** Lumpkin, Lane, Brett, Johnson, Parks
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding court may only exercise jurisdiction of justiciable matter through filing of pleadings sufficient to invoke power of the court to act

## Opinion text

PARKS, Presiding Judge,
specially concurring:
Because “it appears that the [appellant] is guilty of an offense although defectively charged in the indictment,” I am constrained by the mandates of 22 O.S.1981, § 1067 to “direct the prisoner to be returned and delivered over to the jailer of [Tulsa] county, there to abide the order of the court in which he was convicted.”
As the majority states, failure to verify the signature of the arresting officer on the Uniform Violations Complaint precluded the district court from being vested with subject matter jurisdiction and from being empowered to act. Therefore, all proceedings in the trial court are rendered void. This writer neither condones nor tolerates such waste of judicial resources and feels that if prosecutors continually fail to subscribe, endorse and verify informations, such conduct will amount to prosecutorial misconduct and, 22 O.S.1981, § 1067 notwithstanding, will be grounds for dismissal of the action.

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