Marsh v State

Marsh v State
1941 OK CR 23
110 P.2d 326
71 Okl.Cr. 222
Decided: 02/06/1941
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from District Court, Oklahoma County; Ben Arnold, Judge.

J. S. Marsh was convicted of embezzlement, and he appeals. Proceedings abated and cause remanded.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., and Jess L. Pullen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

John Barry, of Oklahoma City, for defendant.

PER CURIAM. The defendant, J. S. Marsh, was convicted of the crime of embezzlement in the district court of Oklahoma county, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for one year, from which judgment and sentence he appealed to this court on the 9th day of January, 1940.

Since this appeal was taken the defendant departed this life, as shown by death certificate filed in this court on the 29th day of January, 1941.

In a criminal prosecution the purpose of proceedings being to punish the accused, the action must necessarily abate upon his death, and, where it is made to appear that defendant has died pending the determination of the appeal, the cause will be abated.