Legal Opinion

Dickinson v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided November 15, 1909No. A-4PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Error from, District Court, Woods County; J. L. Pancoast, Judge. Leroy Dickinson was convicted of pointing a gun at another, and he brings error. Leroy Dickinson, plaintiff in error (hereinafter designated defendant) was informed against in the probate court of Woods county, Okla. T., which information charged that he “did then and there unlawfully, wrongfully, and wilfully point a. deadly weapon, to wit, a single-barrel shotgun at another person, to wit, Abe Wiebe.”

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Error from, District Court, Woods County; J. L. Pancoast, Judge. Leroy Dickinson was convicted of pointing a gun at another, and he brings error. Leroy Dickinson, plaintiff in error (hereinafter designated defendant) was informed against in the probate court of Woods county, Okla. T., which information charged that he “did then and there unlawfully, wrongfully, and wilfully point a. deadly weapon, to wit, a single-barrel shotgun at another person, to wit, Abe Wiebe.” The cause was tried in said probate court, and the defendant was found guilty. From this conviction the defendant appealed to…

1Opinion of the Court

DOYLE, Judge,

(after stating the facts as above.) The statute upon -which the information in this case is based (Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. 1903, § 2510) reads as follows:

“It shall be unlawful for any person to point any pistol or any other deadly weapon whether loaded or not, at any other person or persons either in anger or otherwise.”

The first question presented arises upon the following assignments, which will be considered together:

“(1) That the court erred in failing to instruct the jury upon all the law applicable to the evidence adduced in the trial of the said action. (2) That the said…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Wells v. Territory of OklahomaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1904
  2. State v. SmithMontana Supreme Court · 1892

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Grubbs v. BailesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2006
  2. Tingley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1919
  3. State v. JonesWashington Supreme Court · 1914
  4. Schmitt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1935
  5. Turpen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1949

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