Legal Opinion

Hall v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided April 1, 1985No. F-83-576PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

The appellant, Edward Lyle Hall, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of Second Degree Murder, in Pittsburg County District Court, Case No. CRF-77-102, was sentenced to life imprisonment and he appeals.

The testimony at trial centered on the brutal stabbing death of Albert Cox, the farm supervisor at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, in the prison’s chicken house on March 5, 1977. Warden Richard Crisp stated that he received a report on that day that the defendant inmate and Cox were missing. Crisp searched the chicken house, unstacked…

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2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Chaney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1980
  3. Stafford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1983
  4. Dilworth v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1980
  5. Campbell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1981

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3Cited by42 opinions

  1. Castro v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
  2. Shrum v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1999
  3. Lott v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 2004
  4. Douglas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1997
  5. Lott v. TrammellCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2013

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