Legal Opinion

Harrison v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided October 8, 1969No. A-15259PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BUSSEY, Judge.

Alphonzo Harrison, Jr., hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court of Oklahoma County for the crime of Murder, and from the judgment and sentence fixing his punishment at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

Briefly stated, the facts adduced on the trial reveal that around 2:00 or 2:30 in the afternoon of July 20, 1968, the defendant entered Crosby’s Pool Hall, chased Clarence Reed (the deceased) with a bumper jack, struck the deceased in the back of the head at least twice…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Walters v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1965
  4. Newby v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1920
  5. Alan Eugene Reed and Ivan Daniel Neighbors v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Morgan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1975
  2. Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1976
  3. Harney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 2011
  4. Sanders v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1976
  5. Raymer v. City of TulsaCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1979

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