2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 20. Courts
§20-1402. Disqualification of appellate judges.
No Justice of the Supreme Court of this State or Judge of the Criminal Court of Appeals shall participate in the decision of any cause in such Court appealed thereto from a lower court of said state, in which court such Justice or Judge was judge presiding at the trial of such cause; and the same qualifications shall apply to the members of the Supreme Court and the Criminal Court of Appeals, as to other courts of record; and, whenever any member of either of said Courts is disqualified, the same shall be entered of record in such Court and such disqualifications of such member shall forthwith be certified by the Clerk of such Court to the Governor of the state, who shall appoint some member of the Bar of the state, possessing the same qualifications as the members of such Court, to sit as special Judge in said cause.
R.L. 1910, § 5815. Renumbered from Title 22, § 574 by Laws 1969, c. 119, § 1, emerg. eff. April 3, 1969.
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