Wood v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court of Pittsburg County; Malcolm D. Rosser, Judge. Appellant was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years, and he appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
FURMAN, Presiding Judge.
First. Counsel, for appellant insist that this conviction should be reversed because the record fails to show that the defendant had been arraigned.
In the early days of the common law, when the defendant had no right to be represented by counsel or to testify in his own behalf, and when the punishment for felonies was extremely severe, if not cruel, great weight was accorded to the forms and modes of criminal procedure, which were looked upon as a bulwark of defense against improper convictions. An arraignment was a matter cf great form and ceremony, The prisoner was…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Morgan v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1897
- Gallagher v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
- People v. RozelleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- Sahlinger v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
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