Sancho v State

Sancho v State
1927 OK CR 195
258 P. 1056
37 Okl.Cr. 349
Decided: 07/30/1927
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Abatement of Prosecution Death of Defendant.

Appeal from District Court, Seminole County; Sam Hooker, Special Judge.

Sanders Sancho was convicted of second degree forgery, and he appeals. Cause abated on death of defendant pending appeal.

E.W. Whitney, for plaintiff in error.

The Attorney General, for the State.

DOYLE, P.J. Plaintiff in error, Sanders Sancho, was convicted of forgery in the second degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for the term of one year in the penitentiary. From the judgment rendered on the verdict an appeal by case-made was perfected, April 23, 1926.

Suggestion of the death of plaintiff in error has been made and his counsel of record has filed a motion to abate, setting forth the death of plaintiff in error.