Legal Opinion
Cooper v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided April 4, 1983No. F-82-199PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CORNISH, Judge:
Johnny Robert Collings disappeared on the 28th day of November, 1966. His dismembered body was recovered from a frozen creek near Apache, Oklahoma, on December 24 and 25, 1966. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was four .22 caliber bullet wounds to the head. Despite an immediate investigation, no charges were filed for some fourteen years. However, on the first day of October, 1981, Robert Lynn Cooper was convicted of first degree murder in the case and sentenced to life imprisonment.
As his first proposition of error, appellant contends that the trial court…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Washington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kitchens v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1973
- Kennedy v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1982
- United States v. William G. Le PeraCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
- Brinlee v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1975
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Stout v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1984
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
- Cooper v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1983
- Tobler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1984
- Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1987
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