Title: State v. Howell

State: oregon

Issuer: Oregon Supreme Court

Document:

Affirmed May 19, 1965.
Petition for rehearing denied June 15, 1965.
Edward N. Fadeley, Eugene, argued the cause and filed briefs for appellant.
F.W. Linklater, Deputy District Attorney, Eugene, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was William F. Frye, District Attorney, Eugene.
Before McALLISTER, Chief Justice, and SLOAN, GOODWIN and HOLMAN, Justices.
AFFIRMED.
*559 SLOAN, J.
Defendant appeals from an enhanced penalty imposed upon him as a result of habitual criminal proceedings. He claims he was wronged because the act is discriminately enforced.
The assignments of error are directed at the refusal of the trial court to hear evidence relating to the alleged discrimination. The evidence was properly refused. The same question, in different form, has been before this court before. In State v. Hicks, 1958, 213 Or 619, at 640, 325 P2d 794, cert den 359 US 917, 79 S Ct 594, 3 L Ed2d 579 (1959) the court, by Mr. Justice BRAND said:
The later cases of State v. Bailleaux, 1959, 218 Or 356, 343 P2d 1108, cert den 362 US 923, 80 S Ct 677, 4 L Ed2d 742 (1960); Bailleaux v. Gladden, 1962, 230 Or 606, 370 P2d 722, cert den 371 US 848, 83 S Ct 86, 9 L Ed2d 84 (1962); Tuel v. Gladden, 1963, 234 Or 1, 379 P2d 553, gave the same answer to the claims of discrimination.
A similar case was presented to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals where the court answered a claim of discrimination in this language:
And see Oyler v. Boles, 1962, 368 US 448, 82 S Ct 501, 7 L Ed2d 446 (citing State v. Hicks, supra); Sanders v. Waters, (1952, 10th Cir) 199 F2d 317; State v. Daley, 1960, 147 Conn 506, 163 A2d 112. These cases sustain the trial court's determination that the evidence offered here was irrelevant.
In State v. Hicks, supra, the procedure for enforcing the Habitual Criminal Act was examined and found not lacking in constitutional requirements.
Affirmed.