Quinn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
1Opinion of the CourtChappell, J.
Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Kay county of murder in the killing of Jessie Griffith, and his punishment fixed by the jury at death.
The record consists of four volumes, containing about 2,500 pages. In addition to1 oral argument, the state and defendant filed voluminous briefs.
The evidence of the state was that the Griffith sisters, Jessie and Zexia, left their home in Blackwell at about 5 o’clock on the morning of December 28, 1930, in an automobile, driving to Norman; that their dead bodies were found at about 9 o’clock, a. m. of…
Also in this document: Concurrence.
2Cases cited44 opinions
- Boyd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Starr v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1911
- State v. RuleCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1914
- Gibbons v. TerritoryCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1911
- Miller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1917
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Lovely v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1948
- Henderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1951
- Roulston v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1957
- Doser v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1949
- Holt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1937
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