Legal Opinion
Keller v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided October 7, 1982No. F-80-466PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CORNISH, Judge:
The appellant, Robert Keller, was convicted in Oklahoma County District Court of Murder in the First Degree and sentenced to life imprisonment.
I
The critical issue on appeal is whether there was sufficient independent evidence to corroborate the testimony of accomplice, Mel Ferguson. A detailed recitation of the testimony is necessary to dispose of this proposition.
Ferguson, the State’s key witness, testified that in March, 1979, the appellant, asked him to arrange the death of Robert Busch. Ferguson related that at the time he was an employee at Kelco Oil Company, which…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1980
- Frye v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1980
- West v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1980
- Howard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1977
- Cortez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1966
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Joe L. White, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. American Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1986
- Weatherly v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
- Gunnett v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2005
- Hartness v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1988
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