Legal Opinion

Burke v. Gardenhire

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided June 25, 1957No. 37476Published

1Opinion of the Court

CORN, Vice Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered upon a jury verdict, in the third successive case tried (November 30, 1955) against the defendant at the same term of court. The issues involved were the same as case No. 37,474, Burke v. McKenzie, Okl., 313 P.2d 1090.

Of the jurors empaneled to try the case, over defendant’s objection that the jurors had sat in the previous cases wherein verdicts had been returned against defendant and so were no longer fair and impartial, it appeared that: five jurors had signed verdicts in both previous cases, while the other seven had…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Burke v. McKenzieSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1957

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