Garver v. the Territory of Oklahoma
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Appeal from the District Court of Oklahoma County. Appeal of J. H. Garver, who was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of carelessly allowing prisoners- to escape from the jail of Oklahoma county, while he was acting jailor thereof. The opinion states all the facts necessary for a consideration of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
' Dale, O. J.:
J. H. Garver, appellant, was indicted at the November, 1895, term of the court sitting in Oklahoma county, under § 2010, Statutes of Oklahoma, charged with carelessly permitting prisoners to escape from the Oklahoma county jail. It appears from the record before us that Garver was the jailor of Oklahoma county, and that William Christian and Eobert Christian and James Casey were confined in the jail, the former two upon a conviction had in Pottawatomie county of the crime of manslaughter, for which crime sentences in the penitentiary had…
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