Goff v State

Goff v State
1931 OK CR 47
297 P. 317
50 Okl.Cr. 347
Decided: 01/24/1931
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Appeal and Error Affirmance in Absence of Brief or Oral Argument.

Appeal from District Court, Alfalfa County; J.W. Bird, Judge.

Bryan Goff was convicted of burglary, and he appeals. Affirmed.

Guy D. Talbot, for plaintiff in error.

J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., for the State.

DAVENPORT, P.J. The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted in the district court of Alfalfa county, Okla., of the crime of unlawfully,

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willfully, wrongfully, and burglariously taking, stealing, and carrying away property belonging to Eid Elkouri, and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary at McAlester, Okla., from which judgment the defendant has appealed to this court.

The appeal was filed in this court on October 25, 1929. No brief has been filed on behalf of the defendant, and no reason is shown why a brief has not been filed. No request has been made for oral argument. Where the record shows that no brief has been filed for the defendant and no appearance made for oral argument, the court will consider the appeal is without merit or has been abandoned.