Parish v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
1Opinion of the CourtJones, P. J.
The defendant, James D. Parish, was charged by information filed in the district court of Bryan county with the crime of murder, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death and has appealed.
The defendant, at the time of the alleged homicide, was a convict in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary assigned to work in a convict camp near Atoka, Okla. The deceased, W. R. Benningfield, was a carpenter employed by the School Land Department and engaged in supervising the construction of a house by the defendant and other convicts on one of the state farms. About 9 a. m. on August 11, 1941, while working…
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2Cases cited9 opinions
- Queenan v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Raub v. CarpenterSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Queenan v. Territory of OklahomaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1901
- Cooper v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1924
- Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1942
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- Dutton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1984
- Holder v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1976
- Hardesty v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1955
- Easley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1943
- Harvell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1953
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