Case Name: EARNEST ELLIOTT v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1919-05-22
Citations: 16 Okla. Crim. 672
Docket Number: No. A-3505
Parties: EARNEST ELLIOTT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 672–672

Head Matter:
EARNEST ELLIOTT v. STATE.
No. A-3505.
Opinion Filed May 22, 1919.
(180 Pac. 990.)
Appeal from District Court, Garfield County; J. O. Robberts, Judge.
Earnest Elliott, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, •appeals.
Appeal dismissed, and cause remanded, with directions.
• Dan Huett and H. J. Sturgis, for plaintiff in error.
W. 0. Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff in error, Earnest A. Elliott, was by information filed in the district court of Garfield county charged with the crime of murder. It is alleged that on or about the 16th. day of June, 1918, in said county, he did kill and murder one Elmer Muir, by shooting him with a pistol. Upon his trial the jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of manslaughter in the first ' degree. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were duly filed and overruled. On December 17, 1918. judgment was rendered, and he was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Prom the judgment an appeal was perfected by filing in this court on January 31, 1919, a petition in error with' ease-made. Plaintiff in error, by his 'counsel of record, has filed a motion to dismiss his appeal, and to said motion is attached the affidavit of plaintiff in error that he has requested his attorneys of record' to file said motion to dismiss the appeal. It is therefore considered and ordered that said motion be sustained, the appeal herein dismissed, and the cause remanded to the trial court, with direction to cause the judgment and sentence to be carried into execution. Mandate forthwith.