Koonce v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Koonce v. State

1972 OK CR 297, 502 P.2d 1048, 1972 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 652

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma·Decided October 26, 1972·No. A-14826·Published·Cited by 4 cases

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ORDER MODIFYING JUDGMENT -AND SENTENCE

PER CURIAM.

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States has vacated the opinion of this Court affirming the judgment and sentence rendered in the above styled and numbered cause insofar as it left undisturbed the death sentence, and remanded this cause for reconsideration of this Court in the light of Stewart v. Massachusetts, 408 U.S. 845, 92 S.Ct. 2845, 33 L.Ed.2d 744 (1972);

Now, therefore, it is the order of this court that the judgment and sentence rendered in the District Court of Lincoln County, Case No. C-3298, be, and the same is hereby, modified from a sentence of death, to a sentence of life imprisonment.

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ORDER MODIFYING JUDGMENT -AND SENTENCE

PER CURIAM.

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States has vacated the opinion of this Court affirming the judgment and sentence rendered in the above styled and numbered cause insofar as it left undisturbed the death sentence, and remanded this cause for reconsideration of this Court in the light of Stewart v. Massachusetts, 408 U.S. 845, 92 S.Ct. 2845, 33 L.Ed.2d 744 (1972);

Now, therefore, it is the order of this court that the judgment and sentence rendered in the District Court of Lincoln County, Case No. C-3298, be, and the same is hereby, modified from a sentence of death, to a sentence of life imprisonment.

Koonce v. State, 1972 OK CR 297, 502 P.2d 1048, 1972 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 652 (Okla. Ct. App. 1972).

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