Boykin v Hunt

Boykin v Hunt
1945 OK CR 123
163 P.2d 554
81 Okl.Cr. 289
Decided: 11/14/1945
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Original proceeding by J. G. Boykin against Albert C. Hunt, Judge of the District Court, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, for a writ of prohibition prohibiting the

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respondent from assuming jurisdiction to pass upon a motion for a new trial in a case wherein petitioner was tried and convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon on January 26, 1932. Petition denied.

David Tant, of Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Randell S. Cobb, Atty. Gen., and Warren H. Edwards, Co. Atty., Oklahoma County, of Oklahoma City, for respondent.

BAREFOOT, P. J. J. G. Boykin filed a petition for writ of prohibition in which it is sought to prohibit the Honorable Albert C. Hunt, Judge of the District Court of Oklahoma County, from assuming jurisdiction to pass upon a motion for a new trial in a case where petitioner was tried and convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of the crime of "assault with a dangerous weapon," on the 26th day of January, 1932.