Jordan v. State

The plaintiff in error, J. E. Jordan, Jr., who will hereinafter be referred to as defendant, seeks a reversal of his conviction in the district court of Oklahoma county, case No. 29397, wherein he was charged by information with the crime of obtaining merchandise by means of a false and bogus check.

This court heretofore permitted to be filed without cost deposit an instrument designated: “Petition in error, statement of evidence from memory, and brief”. The attempted appeal must fail.(1) The defendant acting as his own counsel at trial, though he states that he filed a motion for new trial,…