Yandel v Territory

Yandel v Territory
1909 OK CR 144
104 P. 923
3 Okl.Cr. 188
Case Number: No. 2118
Decided: 11/18/1909
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus by the Court.)

1. COURTS Criminal Court of Appeals Rules of Practice Power to Make.

2. APPEAL Review Dismissal of Appeal Grounds.

Appeal from District Court, Pottawatomie County; B.F. Burwell, Judge.

Wesley Yandel was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. Appeal dismissed.

PER CURIAM. On the 21st day of March, 1906, the grand jury returned into the district court in and for Pottawatomie county, Okla. T., an indictment against Wesley Yandel and Ben Mitchell, charging them with the crime of murder. The defendants were arraigned and pleas entered, and on March 29, 1906, on application of the defendants, a severance was granted, and the court ordered that the cause proceed to trial against the defendant Wesley Yandel. The trial was begun on said day, and on the

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31st day of March, 1906, the jury returned into court a verdict against the defendant Wesley Yandel, finding him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were duly filed and overruled by the court and exceptions allowed. Thereupon the defendant was sentenced to serve a term of eight years in the penitentiary. Time was given to the defendant in which to make and serve a case-made on his appeal to the Supreme Court, and his bail was fixed at $7,000, which was given. On March 25, 1907, the case-made and petition in error was filed in the Supreme Court of the territory of Oklahoma. Upon the admission of Oklahoma as a state the case was transferred to the Supreme Court of the state of Oklahoma. Upon the organization of the Criminal Court of Appeals, as directed by statute, the Supreme Court transferred the case to this court, but no record, case-made, and petition in error have ever been transferred to this court. No appearance has ever been made in this court on behalf of the defendant, although said case has been continued from term to term since the organization of this court.