Opinion

Deason v. State

  • 576 P.2d 778
  • 1978 OK CR 38
  • 1978 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 180
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Mar 28, 1978
Status
Published
Author
Brett
On the bench
Brett, Bussey, Cornish
Cited by
21 cases

upholding the use of Indeterminate Sentence Act, 57 O.S. 1981, § 353, against a similar constitutional challenge.

How later courts described this case

  • upholding the use of Indeterminate Sentence Act, 57 O.S. 1981, § 353, against a similar constitutional challenge.
  • the trial court has inherent power to suspend a sentence, unless the legislature has expressly prohibited it

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

BRETT, Judge,

Special Concurrence:

I concur that this conviction should be affirmed, but I retain my position stated in my dissent to Black v. State, supra.

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