West v State

West v State
1915 OK CR 5
145 P. 1107
11 Okl.Cr. 274
Case Number: No. A-2155
Decided: 02/02/1915
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus by the Court.)

APPEAL Abandonment Commutation of Sentence.

Appeal from District Court, Mayes County; Preston S. Davis, Judge.

Sequoyah West was convicted of murder, and appeals. Appeal dismissed.

A.C. Brewster, for plaintiff in error.

Chas. West, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

DOYLE, P.J. Plaintiff in error, Sequoyah West, jointly informed against with Cull K. West and Jesse Clevenger for the murder of one Dan Frame, alleged to have been committed on or about the 7th day of March, 1913, by shooting, was separately tried and convicted of murder with the death penalty assessed. To reverse the judgment an appeal was perfected. While the appeal was still pending in this court, Lee Cruce, Governor, upon the application of plaintiff in error, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

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Where a commutation of sentence is applied for, and the same is granted, and the action of the Governor in the case is brought to the attention of this court pending the determination of the appeal, the appeal will be dismissed as having been abandoned.