COOPER v. OKLAHOMA CITY

COOPER v. OKLAHOMA CITY
1973 OK CR 220
509 P.2d 910
Case Number: A-17803
Decided: 04/25/1973
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from Municipal Criminal Court, Oklahoma City; Karl Gray, Judge.

Cleo Cooper, Jr. was convicted for the offense of Reckless Driving. He was sentenced to serve a term of twenty (20) days in the City Jail and to pay a fine of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and he appeals. Judgment and sentence Reversed and remanded with instructions to dismiss.

Rees T. Evans, Municipal Court Public Defender, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Roy H. Semtner, Municipal Counselor, Mike W. Speegle, Asst. Municipal Counselor, Oklahoma City, for appellee.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BLISS, Presiding Judge.

¶1 Appellant, Cleo Cooper, Jr., hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the Municipal Criminal Court of the City of Oklahoma City, Case No. 14388, for the crime of Reckless Driving. He was sentenced to serve a term of twenty (20) days in the City Jail and to pay a fine of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). From said judgment and sentence, a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

¶2 In view of our holding in this case and in cases recently decided, we do not feel that a statement of the facts is required.

¶3 In Goomda v. City of Oklahoma City, Okl.Cr., 506 P.2d 991 (1973), the Syllabus of the Court stated:

"On a review of a municipal court judgment the Court of Criminal Appeals will not take judicial notice of an ordinance involved, . . . . Such ordinance must be reflected in the record, . . . or the wording must have been agreed to by the parties and stipulation entered in the record during trial."

¶4 Since the record before us fails to reflect the ordinance under which the defendant was tried and convicted, we are of the opinion that the judgment and sentence appealed from must be, and hereby is, Reversed and remanded with instructions to dismiss.

BRETT and BUSSEY, JJ., concur.