In re Clark

In re Clark
1934 OK CR 38
31 P.2d 159
55 Okl.Cr. 381
Decided: 03/30/1934
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Opinion of the Judges of the Criminal Court of Appeals, in response to a request of Honorable Wm. H. Murray, Governor of the state of Oklahoma, relative to the conviction of Frank Clark, of the crime of murder.

To His Excellency, Wm. H. Murray, Governor of the State of

Oklahoma, Sir:

In response to your official communication of March 21, 1934, asking for an opinion, as provided in section 2786, C. O. S. 1921, now section 3172, Oklahoma Statutes 1931, in the matter of the conviction of Frank Clark, upon a charge of murder in the district court of McCurtain county, Okla., who entered his plea of guilty on the 28th day of February, 1934, and by the judgment of said court on the 5th day of March, 1934, was sentenced to be put to death by electrocution on the 18th day of May, 1934, we hereby submit the following opinion of the judges:

DAVENPORT, J. The record submitted, to which is attached your request above mentioned, discloses that the said Frank Clark was charged with murder by information in the district court of McCurtain county, and that

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said information was filed in said court on the 28th day of February, 1934; that on the said day testimony was taken and the defendant entered his plea of guilty. The court fixed March 5, 1934, as the date of sentence for the defendant, and on the said 5th day of March, 1934, defendant was sentenced to death by electrocution on the 18th day of May, 1934.