Case ID: okla-crim_28/html/0448-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WALTER NEFF v. STATE.
    No. A-4916.
    Opinion Filed Dec. 31, 1924.
    (231 Pac. 897.)
    (Syllabus.)
    Abatement of Prosecution — Death of Accused Pending Appeal. In a criminal action, the purpose of the proceedings being to punish the defendant in person, the action must necessarily abate upon his death.
    Appeal from District Court, Ottawa County; J. J. Smith, Judge.
    Walter Neff was convicted of transporting intoxicating liquor, second offense, and he appeals.
    Order that proceedings abate.
    Burns & Turner, for plaintiff in error.
    The Attorney General, for the State.
   PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff in error, Walter Neff, was convicted in the district court of Ottawa county, on a charge of transporting whisky, second offense, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $500 and imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years. From the judgment rendered on the verdict, on May 19, 1923, an appeal was perfected by filing in this court on November 16, 1923, a petition in error with ease-made.

Since the appeal was taken, and before tbe final submission of the cause, suggestion of tbe death of tbe plaintiff in error, Walter Neff, has been made. In a criminal action, tbe purpose of tbe proceedings being to punish tbe defendant in person, tbe action must necessarily abate upon bis death.

It is therefore considered, adjudged, and ordered that the proceedings in this cause, and especially under tbe judgment therein rendered, have abated, and that the district court of Ottawa county enter its appropriate order to that effect.