Legal Opinion

Dunford v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided August 4, 1980No. F-79-323PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of Forgery in the Second Degree, After Former Conviction of a Felony, in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CRF-78-3025. On appeal he has raised four assignments of error pertaining to impeachment by prior conviction, improper instruction of the jury, improper communications with the jury and insufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

For purposes of clarity, we will first discuss the second assignment of error, which is that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. The appellate test of sufficiency is whether or not…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Burton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  2. Brasfield v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  3. Hunt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1979
  4. Bruce E. Ellis v. Amos E. Reed, Secretary of Corrections, and the Attorney General of the State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1979
  5. Baker v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1978

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. People v. RodriguezCalifornia Supreme Court · 1986
  2. Drew v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1989
  3. Fisher v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 1982
  4. Funkhouser v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1986
  5. State v. BerkyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1994

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