Wilson v State

Wilson v State
1947 OK CR 98
184 P.2d 634
85 Okl.Cr. 45
Decided: 09/10/1947
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Appeal and Error-Action Abated and Cause Remanded to Trial Court, Where Defendant Died Pending Determination of Appeal.

Appeal from District Court, Tulsa County; Harry L. S. Halley, Judge.

Theodore S. Wilson was convicted of perjury, and he appeals. Proceedings abated because of appellant's death, and cause remanded for entry of appropriate order.

James P. Devine and F. E. Riddle, both of Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., and Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

JONES, J. The defendant, Theodore S. Wilson, was on the 21st day of November, 1945, convicted in the

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district court of Tulsa county of the crime of perjury, and his punishment assessed at a term of nine years in the State Penitentiary and he has appealed.