State v. Bell
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Appeal from District Court, Rogers County; T. L. Brown, Judge. William Bell was prosecuted on information for attempt to commit rape upon a female under 16, and from an order setting aside the information and discharging defendant, the State brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ARMSTRONG, J'
This is an appeal by the State of Oklahoma from an order of the district court of Rogers county sustaining a motion to set aside an information and discharging the defendant in error from prosecution. A motion to dismiss the appeal was filed by the defendant in error, and the cause now comes on to be heard upon this motion and upon the merits. The charging part of the information is as follows:
“William Bell, then and there being, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously attempt to commit a crime, a felony, to wit, rape, in the following manner and form, to wit:…
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