Legal Opinion
Dilworth v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided May 13, 1980No. F-77-876PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CORNISH, Presiding Judge:
This is an appeal from a conviction in the District Court of Comanche County, Case No. CRF-76-1093, for Pointing a Firearm. Punishment was set at five (5) years’ imprisonment.
The conviction arose out of an incident on December 27, 1976, in Lawton, Oklahoma, when a pickup truck of an off-duty highway patrolman was blocked by two cars. The occupants of both cars were engaged in a conversation with their vehicles facing in opposite directions.
The testimony is conflicting as to what was said after the patrolman, Fred Whitehead, pulled up behind the appellant’s car,…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Barber v. PageSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Trantham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1973
- Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1949
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1976
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3Cited by46 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BohannonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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- People v. BattsCalifornia Supreme Court · 2003
- Banks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1991
- Hall v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1985
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