Case Name: LEE KAUFMAN v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1928-09-01
Citations: 40 Okla. Crim. 440
Docket Number: No. A-6504
Parties: LEE KAUFMAN v. STATE.
Judges: EDWARDS and DAVENPORT, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 40
Pages: 440–441

Head Matter:
LEE KAUFMAN v. STATE.
No. A-6504.
Opinion Filed Sept. 1, 1928.
(269 Pac. 787.)
Wieck & Armstrong, for plaintiff in error.
Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DOYLE, P. J.
Lee Kaufman was convicted in the county court of Kay county on a charge that he did unlawfully sell two drinks of whisky to one P. C. Copeland, and, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and to be confined in the county jail for 80 days. From the judgment rendered December 4, 1926, an appeal was perfected by filing in this court on February 18th, 1927, a petition in error with case-made. On May 15, 1928, the cause was submitted on briefs.
His counsel of record have filed a motion to abate the proceedings on the ground that plaintiff in error, Lee Kaufman, departed this life at Claremore on or about the 17th day of June, 1928, which motion is supported by the affidavit of Charles Jenkins, and a further showing that the motion and affidavit attached was duly served on the Attorney General and the county attorney of Kay county.
In a criminal action, the purpose of the proceedings being to punish the defendant in person, the action must necessarily abate upon his death.
It is therefore considered, ordered, and adjudged that the proceeding in this cause, and especially in the judgment appealed from, has abated, and that the county court of Kay county enter its appropriate order to that effect.
EDWARDS and DAVENPORT, JJ., concur.