O'DELL v. State

Robert Doyle O’Dell, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court of Tulsa County, for the crime of Rape in the First Degree, After Former Conviction of a Felony, and from the judgment and sentence fixing his punishment at an indeterminate sentence of from 33 to 99 years imprisonment in the state penitentiary, he appeals.

As his first assignment of error the defendant contends that reversible error occurred when the following proceedings transpired in the presence of the jury:

“Mr. Evans says that Robert O’Dell is a relatively slight individual.

Now…