Legal Opinion

Application of Melton

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided July 22, 1959No. A-12772PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRETT, Judge.

This is an original action for an alternative writ of mandamus brought by George Martin Melton, petitioner, against the Comanche County Attorney, Warren H. Crane, and the Comanche County Judge of the Superior Court, John P. Fullerton. In said petition he seeks an order requiring the State of Oklahoma to return him from the Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is now confined, to Oklahoma for a speedy trial in said Superior Court. To the petition a response has been filed. It appears therein that two certain charges of embezzlement are pending in the courts of…

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2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Raine v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1920
  2. In Re SchechtelSupreme Court of Colorado · 1938
  3. Thacker v. MarshallCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1958
  4. Lee v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1932
  5. DP INVERARITY v. ZumwaltCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1955

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. McGrathMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
  2. State Ex Rel. Fredenberg v. ByrneWisconsin Supreme Court · 1963
  3. State v. CochranSupreme Court of Missouri · 1963
  4. Richerson v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1967
  5. Naugle v. FreemanCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1969

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