Smith v District Court of Tulsa County

Smith v District Court of Tulsa County
1945 OK CR 107
162 P.2d 590
81 Okl.Cr. 227
Decided: 10/11/1945
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Prohibition-Writ Granted.

JONES, J., dissenting.

Original petition by Willis L. Smith for a writ of prohibition against the District Court of Tulsa County and others to prevent defendants from prosecuting petitioner on a charge of perjury. Writ granted.

Keaton, Wells & Johnston, of Oklahoma City, and Hudson & Hudson, of Tulsa, for plaintiff.

Randell S. Cobb, Atty. Gen., E. J. Broaddus, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Dixie Gilmer, Co. Atty., and M. S. Simms and John L. Ward, Jr., Asst. Co. Attys., all of Tulsa, for defendants.

BAREFOOT, P. J. Petitioner, Willis L. Smith, on November 26, 1943, filed in this court his petition seeking a writ of prohibition, in which it is alleged that petitioner was indicted on November 17, 1943, in Tulsa county, for the crime of perjury.