Smith v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff in Error, Harry D. Smith, hereafter referred to as defendant, was convicted in the District Court of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, for the crime of Second Degree Forgery, After Former Conviction of a Felony. Defendant had court appointed counsel and was tried by a jury in a two-stage proceeding, after which the jury assessed defendant’s punishment at fifteen years confinement in the state penitentiary. Judgment and sentence was imposed on May 26, 1967, from which this appeal was lodged.

Defendant first complains in his brief that the delay of ten days in bringing…