Legal Opinion
Gaddis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided May 24, 1972No. A-17161Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SIMMS, Judge:
Howard Gaddis, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in 1967 in the District Court of Oklahoma County of the crime of Murder and sentenced to Death in accordance with the jury verdict. The mandatory appeal was perfected to this Court, and, in Case No. A-14,579, Gaddis v. State, Okl.Cr., 447 P.2d 42 (1968), the judgment and sentence of Death was affirmed.
Thereafter, in early 1969, defendant sought a writ of Habeas Corpus in this Court, alleging among other things, that the jurors selected to try his cause were em-panelled contrary to the guidelines…
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