Ford v State

Ford v State
1912 OK CR 9
120 P. 300
6 Okl.Cr. 519
Case Number: No. A-934
Decided: 01/11/1912
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus by the Court.)

APPEAL AND ERROR Failure to File Briefs Affirmance.

Appeal from District Court, Wagoner County; John H. King, Judge.

Charley Ford and Will Ward were convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, and appeal. Affirmed.

M.W. Guy, for plaintiffs in error.

Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

ARMSTRONG, J. Plaintiffs in error were tried at the April, 1910, term of the district court of Wagoner county on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm, and were convicted on the 23d day of April, 1910. Thereafter, on the 30th day of said month, they were sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of 2 1/2 years.

The appeal was filed in this court on the 25th day of October, 1910. No petition in error and no brief have been filed on behalf of plaintiffs in error. This cause was assigned for oral argument on the 6th day of January, 1912. On that date no appearance was made on behalf of plaintiffs in error for oral argument, and the Assistant Attorney General on behalf of the state, moved to affirm for want of prosecution.

The motion is well taken. When an appeal is taken from a judgment of a trial court, and no petition in error is filed and no brief filed on behalf of appellant, and no appearance made for oral argument, such appeal is considered as abandoned, and will be affirmed,

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on motion of the Attorney General or his proper representative. See Mingle v. State, 5 Okla. Cr. 535, 115 P. 616; Price v. State, 5 Okla. Cr. 147, 113 P. 1061; Henson v. State, 5 Okla. Cr. 6, 113 P. 224; and many others.