State v. Rayburn
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Error from Ellis County Court; A. E. Williams, Judge. R. J. Rayburn was arrested upon a complaint filed in the county court charging him with wilfully failing or refusing to perform road work as required by Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. Olda. 1903, .§ 6090. The complaint was dismissed on motion of accused, and the state brought error to the Supreme Court, whence the cause is transferred to the Criminal Court of Appeals.
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Error from Ellis County Court; A. E. Williams, Judge. R. J. Rayburn was arrested upon a complaint filed in the county court charging him with wilfully failing or refusing to perform road work as required by Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. Olda. 1903, .§ 6090. The complaint was dismissed on motion of accused, and the state brought error to the Supreme Court, whence the cause is transferred to the Criminal Court of Appeals. On March 10, 1908, complaint was filed in the county court of Ellis county against the defendant in error, who will hereinafter be referred to as “the accused,” charging him with…
1Opinion of the Court
BAKIpR, Judge,
(after stating the facts as above). Section 6090, Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. 1903, reads as follows:
“All male persons between twenty-one and fifty years oE age, who have resided thirty days in this territory, who are capable of performing labor on public highways, and who are not a township or county charge, shall be liable each year to perform four days work of eight hours each on the public roads, under the direction of the road overseer within whose district or ward they may respectively reside, or furnish a substitute to do the same, or pay the sum of one dollar per day to any…
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