Legal Opinion
Application of Murga
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 31, 1981No. 54990PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAVENDER, Justice:
This is an original action brought by Luis Torres Murga and Guillermo Torres Murga, hereinafter referred to as "the defendants." The defendants, who are indigent, were charged in the District Court of Blaine County, Oklahoma, with the offense of Murder in the First Degree. They are citizens of the Republic of Mexico and do not speak or understand the English language. Because of this disability, they moved the district court to appoint an interpreter and to pay the interpreter out of the Blaine County Court Fund.
The district court conducted a hearing and held, following…
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