Opinion of the Judges

Honorable Boy J. Turner

Governor of the State of Oklahoma

Sir:

The Judges of the Criminal Court of Appeals, in response to your official communication of recent date addressed to this Court requesting an opinion as provided by Tit. 22 O. S. 1941 § 1003, which presents for the consideration of the Judges of the Court an authenticated copy of the record of the conviction of Ben Gould, for the crime of murder, and who was on the 15th day of March, 1948, by the judgment of the District Court of Atoka County, Honorable Sam Sullivan, Judge, sentenced to suffer death by electrocution on May 28, 1948,…