Legal Opinion
Goben v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided November 7, 1925No. A-4417PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDoyle, J.
The plaintiff in error, C. W. Goben, and William Tait, were jointly charged, by information duly filed in the district court 'of Comanche county, April 12, 1921, with the murder of Russell Sprague, alleged to have been committed in said county on the 25th day of March, 1921. Upon their arraignment, the defendant William Tait entered a plea of guilty to the crime of murder as charged in the information. He was thereupon sentenced to suffer death by electrocution (see Opinion of the Judges, 18 Okla. Cr. 598, 197 P. 546), which sentence was May 15, 1923, by Gov. Walton, commuted to imprisonment…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Fritz v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1912
- Owen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1917
- Goben v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1921
- Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1919
- Westbrook v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1918
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1949
- Easley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1943
- Mannon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1939
- Waters v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1948
- Easley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1943
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