Legal Opinion
Collums v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided February 8, 1985No. F-82-418PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BRETT, Judge:
The appellant, Michael Lee Collums, was charged in the District Court of Washington County, Case No. CRF-81-195, with Murder in the First Degree, in violation of 21 O.S.1981, § 701.7 B, and Arson in the First Degree, in violation of 21 O.S.1981, § 1401. He was convicted of the former offense but acquitted of the latter. The jury returned a sentence of life imprisonment. 1 We affirm the judgment and sentence of the District Court.
Sometime around midnight on July 1, 1982, two men burglarized the home of Evelyn Cascone near Vera, Oklahoma. In the course of the burglary…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Garland Rex Brinlee, Jr. v. Richard A. Crisp, Warden, and the State of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1979
- Nuckols v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1984
- Jean Sinclair v. John W. Turner, Warden, Utah State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 2004
- Bayliss v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1990
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