State v. Dennis

This is an appeal by the state of Oklahoma from an order of the district court of Coal county, sustaining a demurrer to an information charging the defendant in error, Fred G. Dennis, with corruption in office.

We are first confronted with a motion to dismiss the appeal filed by the defendant in error, alleging that no notice of appeal was served upon the defendant in error in the trial court, and no proof made that the defendant in error could not be found within Coal county; that it does not appear that notice of appeal was posted for three weeks in the office of the court clerk, as provided…