Dyer v. State

POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Richard Gaines Dyer, plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted by a jury in the district court of Tulsa County of the crime of uttering a forged instrument after former conviction of a felony, and his punishment was fixed at ten years confinement in the State Penitentiary.

The decisive question raised is the proposition that the court committed error “in refusing defendant’s written instruction on the offense of uttering a forged instrument first offense.”

The requested instruction reads:

“If, from the testimony that you have heard, you…