Legal Opinion
Acuff v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided May 11, 1955No. A-12089PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
' POWELL, Judge.
Ralph Gilbert Acuff, alias Lloyd N. Gur-kin, plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in the district court of Oklahoma County with the crime of forgery in the second degree. Defendant refused the aid of counsel, and acted as his own attorney in the trial of the case. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed the punishment to be a term of two years in the State Penitentiary. The penalty might, have been seven years. Tit. 21 O.S.1951 § 1621, subd. 2.
Defendant has acted as his own counsel on appeal, and orally argued his case before this…
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