Melvin v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge.

Tollie Earl Melvin was convicted in Oklahoma County District Court by a jury of Murder in the First Degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

At approximately 2:25 a.m., on the morning of December 9, ^1982, Spencer police officer Kevin Simmons radioed the dispatcher at the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s office that he was stopping a vehicle at N.E. 36th Street and Spencer Road for a traffic violation and that the vehicle bore a license plate with the number T126373. When the officer did not report back to the dispatcher, backup officers were sent to the scene. Officer…