Harmon v. Territory of Oklahoma
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Oou-rt of Pottawatomie County; before B. F. Bwrwell; Trial Judge. STATEMENT OR EACTS. At the November, 1902, term of the district court of Oklahoma county an indictment- was returned by the grand jury charging the defendants,. ¡James Hannon; and Ann Wynn, with the crime of rape, committed npon the person of Annie Patt, in said county, on the 26th day of January, 1903, which indictment was filed and returned February 23, 1903, and during the term…
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Error from the District Oou-rt of Pottawatomie County; before B. F. Bwrwell; Trial Judge. STATEMENT OR EACTS. At the November, 1902, term of the district court of Oklahoma county an indictment- was returned by the grand jury charging the defendants,. ¡James Hannon; and Ann Wynn, with the crime of rape, committed npon the person of Annie Patt, in said county, on the 26th day of January, 1903, which indictment was filed and returned February 23, 1903, and during the term aforesaid. On the 7th, day of May, after a severance of trial had been granted, the defendant James Harmon gave notice of and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Gillette, J.:
This case, revolting in its details, comes to this court for review upon seven propositions of error presented by the plaintiff in error. We will notice them in their order.
The first is that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the evidence. Counsel say that the story of the prosecutrix, considered with the evidence of the Territory corroborative thereof, in the face of the evidence of the several witnesses of the defendant, is unreasonable and improbable in the extreme, and adds:.
“We think it is within the province of the appellate court, also that it is…
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