DeVooght v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

John Edward DeVooght, III, was convicted in Oklahoma County District Court of Murder in the First Degree and punishment was assessed at life imprisonment.

Appellant was tried before a jury for the murder of six-year-old Patricia Carter who had been found raped, sodomized, and beaten to death in a field near her home on the morning of October 2, 1982. Appellant was fifteen, nearly sixteen, years old at the time. He and his mother, Linda Duke, had been staying at the victim’s mother’s home where Duke was responsible for the care of the three Carter children.

Kathie Carter…