Oklahoma v Sears

Oklahoma v Sears
1931 OK CR 265
299 P. 925
51 Okl.Cr. 106
Decided: 05/29/1931
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

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Appeal and Error Dismissal Moot Questions.

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

M.R. Sears was acquitted of the crime of selling a forged and counterfeited note, and the State appeals. Appeal dismissed.

W. Adelbert Dillon, Co. Atty., and J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., for the State.

Titus & Hill and Guy D. Talbot, for defendant in error.

DAVENPORT, P.J. The defendant in error, M.R. Sears, was by information charged with the unlawful, willful, wrongful, fraudulent, and felonious selling, exchanging, and delivering to one Noah Herron, a forged and counterfeited note, was acquitted, and the state appeals.

The record shows that the defendant in error, M.R. Sears, was acquitted by the verdict of a jury; therefore the questions raised by the state are moot.