MELOT v. STATE

MELOT v. STATE
1966 OK CR 140
419 P.2d 285
Case Number: A-13815
Decided: 10/05/1966
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

An appeal from the District Court of Caddo County; Sam M. Williams, Judge.

Edward Lavon Melot was convicted of the crime of Burglary Second Degree, AF CF, and appeals. Reversed and remanded with instructions.

Malcolm Baucum, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error at trial, and in perfection of appeal.

Judd Black, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error in presentation of oral argument and completion of appeal.

Charles Nesbitt, Atty. Gen., Rex Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

NIX, Judge.

¶1 Plaintiff in Error, Edward Lavon Melot, has perfected his appeal to this Court, and is the companion case of Wardell Ray Hawkins, No. A-13,813, opinion handed down this day, and will be cited as Hawkins v. State, Okl.Cr.App., 419 P.2d 281.

¶2 We will not repeat the facts of the case, nor the principles of law applied, as they are identical with the companion case, cited above.

¶3 It is the order of this Court that this cause be reversed and remanded back to the trial court for a new trial in accordance with the instructions in the Hawkins case.

BUSSEY, P.J., and BRETT, J., concur.