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22 OK Stat § 22-831 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-831. Order of trial proceedings.

|The jury having been impaneled and sworn, the trial must proceed in the following order: |1. If the indictment or information is for a felony, the clerk or district attorney must read it, and state the plea of the defendant to the jury. In other cases this formality may be dispensed with.2. The district attorney, or other counsel for the state, must open the case and offer the evidence in support of the indictment or information.3. The defendant or defendant’s counsel shall give an opening statement immediately after the opening statement of the district attorney unless the defendant affirmatively reserves the opening statement until the district attorney has rested the state’s case. The defense may offer evidence after the close of the state’s case.4. The parties may then, respectively, offer rebutting testimony only, unless the court for good reason, in furtherance of justice, or to correct an evident oversight, permit them to offer evidence upon their original case.5. When the evidence is concluded, the attorneys for the prosecution may submit to the court written instructions. If the questions of law involved in the instructions are to be argued, the court shall direct the jury to withdraw during the argument, and after the argument, must settle the instructions, and may give or refuse any instructions asked, or may modify the same as he deems the law to be. Instructions refused shall be marked in writing by the judge, if modified, modification shall be shown in the instruction. When the instructions are thus settled, the jury, if sent out, shall be recalled and the court shall thereupon read the instructions to the jury.6. Thereupon, unless the case is submitted to the jury without argument, the counsel for the state shall commence, and the defendant or his counsel shall follow, then the counsel for the state shall conclude the argument to the jury. During the argument the attorneys shall be permitted to read and comment upon the instructions as applied to the evidence given, but shall not argue to the jury the correctness or incorrectness of the propositions of law therein contained. The court may permit one or more counsel to address the jury on the same side, and may arrange the order in which they shall speak, but shall not without the consent of the attorneys limit the time of their arguments. When the arguments are concluded, if the court be of the opinion that the jury might be misled by the arguments of counsel, he may to prevent the same further instruct the jury. All instructions given shall be in writing unless waived by both parties, and shall be filed and become a part of the record in the case.R.L.1910, § 5870. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 262, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000.
22 OK Stat § 22-832 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-832. Court to decide the law.

|The court must decide all questions of law which arise in the course of the trial. |R.L.1910, § 5871.
22 OK Stat § 22-833 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-833. Province of jury in libel case.

|On the trial of an indictment or information for libel, the jury shall determine the facts under the instructions of the court as in other cases. |R.L.1910, § 5872.
22 OK Stat § 22-834 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-834. Jury limited to questions of fact.

|On the trial of an indictment or information, questions of law are to be decided by the court, and the questions of fact are to be decided by the jury; and, although the jury have the power to find a general verdict, which includes questions of law as well as of fact, they are bound, nevertheless, to receive the law which is laid down as such by the court. |R.L.1910, § 5873.
22 OK Stat § 22-835 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-835. Restriction of argument - Number of counsel.

|If the indictment or information is for an offense punishable with death, three counsel on each side may argue the case to the jury. If it is for any other offense the court may, in its discretion, restrict the argument to one counsel on each side. |R.L.1910, § 5874.
22 OK Stat § 22-836 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-836. Defendant presumed innocent - Reasonable doubt of guilt requires acquittal.

|A defendant in a criminal action is presumed to be innocent until the contrary is proved, and in case of a reasonable doubt as to whether his guilt is satisfactorily shown, he is entitled to be acquitted. |R.L.1910, § 5875.
22 OK Stat § 22-837 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-837. Doubt as to degree of guilt.

|When it appears that a defendant has committed a public offense and there is reasonable ground of doubt in which of two or more degrees he is guilty, he can be convicted of the lowest of such degree only. |R.L.1910, § 5877.
22 OK Stat § 22-839 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-839. Discharge of defendant that he may testify for state.

|When two or more persons are included in the same indictment or information, the court may, at any time before the defendants have gone into their defense, on the application of the district attorney, direct any defendant to be discharged from the indictment or information, that he may be compelled to be a witness for the state. |R.L.1910, § 5879.
22 OK Stat § 22-840 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-840. Discharge of defendant that he may testify for codefendant.

|When two or more persons are included in the same indictment or information, and the court is of opinion that in regard to a particular defendant there is not sufficient evidence to put him on his defense, it must, before the evidence is closed, in order that he may be compelled to be a witness for his codefendant, submit its opinion to the jury, who, if they so find, may acquit the particular defendant for the purpose aforesaid. |R.L.1910, § 5880.
22 OK Stat § 22-841 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-841. Higher offense than charged, existence of - Jury discharged.

|If it appear by the testimony that the facts proved constitute an offense of a higher nature than that charged in the indictment or information, the court may direct the jury to be discharged, and all proceedings on the indictment or information to be suspended, and may order the defendant to be committed or continued on, or admitted to bail, to answer any new indictment or information which may be filed against him for the higher offense. |R.L.1910, § 5887.
22 OK Stat § 22-842 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-842. Discharge of jury not a former acquittal.

|If an indictment or information for the higher offense is filed within a year next thereafter, he must be tried thereon, and a plea of former acquittal to such last prosecution is not sustained by the fact of the discharge of the jury on the first indictment or information. |R.L.1910, § 5888.
22 OK Stat § 22-843 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-843. Trial on original indictment, when.

|If a new indictment or information is not filed for a higher offense within a year, as aforesaid, the court shall again proceed to try the defendant on the original indictment or information. |R.L.1910, § 5889.
22 OK Stat § 22-844 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-844. Jury may be discharged, when.

|The court may direct the jury to be discharged where it appears that it has not jurisdiction of the offense, or that the facts as charged in the indictment or information do not constitute an offense punishable by law. |R.L.1910, § 5890.
22 OK Stat § 22-845 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-845. Disposition of prisoner on discharge of jury.

|If the jury is discharged because the court has not jurisdiction of the offense charged in the indictment or information, and it appears that it was committed out of the jurisdiction of this state, the court may order the defendant to be discharged, or to be detained for a reasonable time specified in the order, until a communication can be sent by the district attorney to the chief executive officer of the state, territory or district where the offense was committed. |R.L.1910, § 5891.
22 OK Stat § 22-846 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-846. Disposition of prisoner where jurisdiction in another county.

|If the offense was committed within the exclusive jurisdiction of another county of this state, the court must direct the defendant to be committed for such time as it deems reasonable to await a warrant from the proper county for his arrest, or if the offense be a misdemeanor only, it may admit him to bail in an undertaking, with sufficient sureties, that he will, within such time as the court may appoint, render himself amenable to a warrant for his arrest from the proper county, and if not sooner arrested thereon, will attend at the office of the sheriff of the county where the trial was had, at a time particularly specified in the undertaking, to surrender himself upon the warrant, if issued, or that his bail will forfeit such sum as the court may fix, and to be mentioned in the undertaking; and the clerk must forthwith transmit a certified copy of the indictment or information, and all the papers in the action filed with him, to the district attorney of the proper county, the expense of which transmission is chargeable to the county. |R.L.1910, § 5892.
22 OK Stat § 22-847 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-847. Disposition of prisoner where defendant not arrested on warrant from proper county.

|If the defendant is not arrested on a warrant from the proper county, he must be discharged from custody, or his bail in the action be exonerated, or money deposited instead of bail refunded, as the case may be, and the sureties in the undertaking as mentioned in the last section, must be discharged. |R.L.1910, § 5893.
22 OK Stat § 22-848 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-848. Disposition of prisoner - Proceedings if arrested.

|If he is arrested, the same proceedings must be had thereon as upon the arrest of a defendant in another county, on a warrant of arrest issued by a magistrate. |R.L.1910, § 5894.
22 OK Stat § 22-849 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-849. Duty of court where no offense charged.

|If the jury be discharged because the facts as charged do not constitute an offense punishable by law, the court must order that the defendant, if in custody, be discharged therefrom, or, if admitted to bail, that the bail be exonerated, or if he have deposited money instead of bail, that the money deposited be refunded to him unless in its opinion a new indictment or information can be framed, upon which the defendant can be legally convicted, in which case it may direct that the case be resubmitted to the same or another grand jury, or a new information filed. |R.L.1910, § 5895.
22 OK Stat § 22-850 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-850. Court may advise jury to acquit.

|If, at any time after the evidence on either side is closed, the court deem it insufficient to warrant a conviction, it may advise the jury to acquit the defendant. But the jury are not bound by the advice, nor can the court, for any cause, prevent the jury from giving a verdict. |R.L.1910, § 5896. R.L.1910, § 5896.
22 OK Stat § 22-851 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-851. Jury may view place - Custody of sworn officer.

|When, in the opinion of the court, it is proper that the jury should view the place in which the offense was charged to have been committed, or in which any other material fact occurred, it may order the jury to be conducted in a body, in the custody of proper officers, to the place, which must be shown to them by a person appointed by the court for that purpose, and the officers must be sworn to suffer no person to speak to or communicate with the jury, nor to do so themselves, on any subject connected with the trial, and to return them into court without unnecessary delay, or at a specified time. |R.L.1910, § 5897.
22 OK Stat § 22-852 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-852. Juror must declare knowledge of case.

|If a juror have any personal knowledge respecting a fact in controversy in a cause he must declare it in open court during the trial. If, during the retirement of a jury, a juror declare a fact, which could be evidence in the cause, as of his own knowledge, the jury must return into court. In either of these cases, the juror making the statement must be sworn as a witness and examined in the presence of the parties. |R.L.1910, § 5898.
22 OK Stat § 22-853 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-853. Custody and conduct of jury before submission - Separation - Sworn officer.

|The jurors sworn to try an indictment or information, may, at any time before the submission of the cause to the jury, in the discretion of the court, be permitted to separate, or to be kept in charge of proper officers. The officers must be sworn to keep the jurors together until the next meeting of the court, to suffer no person to speak to or communicate with them, nor to do so themselves, on any subject connected with the trial, and to return them into court at the next meeting thereof. Such officer or officers having once been duly sworn, it is not necessary that they be resworn at each recess or adjournment. An admonition to the officer and the jury shall be sufficient. |R.L.1910, § 5899. Amended by Laws 1945, p. 97, § 1.
22 OK Stat § 22-853.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-853.1. Jurors - Protective orders.

|The court, for good cause shown, upon motion of either party or any affected person or upon its own initiative, may issue a protective order for a stated period regulating disclosure of the identity and the business or residential address of any prospective or sworn juror to any person or persons, other than to counsel for either party. Such good cause shall exist in civil or criminal proceedings where the court determines that there is a likelihood of bribery, jury tampering, or of physical injury or harassment of the juror. |Added by Laws 1991, c. 33, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
22 OK Stat § 22-854 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-854. Court must admonish jury as to conduct.

|The jury must also, at each adjournment of the court, whether permitted to separate or kept in charge of officers, be admonished by the court that it is their duty not to converse among themselves or with any one else on any subject connected with the trial, or to form or express any opinion thereon, until the case is finally submitted to them. |R.L.1910, § 5900.
22 OK Stat § 22-855 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-855. Sickness or death of juror - New juror sworn.

|If, before the conclusion of a trial, a juror becomes sick, so as to be unable to perform his duty, the court may order him to be discharged. In that case or in the event of the death of a juror a new juror may be sworn, and the trial begin anew, or the jury may be discharged, and a new jury then or afterwards impaneled. |R.L.1910, § 5901. Amended by Laws 1941, p. 88, § 1.
22 OK Stat § 22-856 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-856. Requisites of charge of court - Presentation of written charge - Request to charge - Endorsement of disposition on charge presented - Partial refusal.

|In charging the jury, the court must state to them all matters of law which it thinks necessary for their information in giving their verdict, and if it state the testimony of the case, it must in addition inform the jury that they are the exclusive judges of all questions of fact. Either party may present to the court any written charge and request that it be given. If the court thinks it correct and pertinent, it must be given; if not, it must be refused. Upon each charge presented and given or refused the court must endorse or sign its decision. If part of any written charge be given and part refused the court must distinguish, showing by the endorsement or answer what part of each charge was given and what part refused. |R.L. 1910, § 5905.
22 OK Stat § 22-857 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-857. Jury after the charge.

|After hearing the charge, the jury may either decide in court, or may retire for deliberation. If they do not agree without retiring, one or more officers must be sworn to keep them together in some private and convenient place, and not to permit any person to speak to or communicate with them, nor do so themselves, unless it be by order of the court, or to ask them whether they have agreed upon a verdict, and to return them into court when they have so agreed, or when ordered by the court. |R.L. 1910, § 5906. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 17, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 13, emerg. eff. June 19, 1998; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 8, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 17 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
22 OK Stat § 22-858 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-858. Defendant admitted to bail may be committed during trial.

|When a defendant who has given bail appears for trial, the court may, in its discretion, at any time after his appearance for trial order him to be committed to the custody of the proper officer of the county to abide the judgment or further order of the court, and he must be committed and held in custody accordingly. |R.L.1910, § 5907.
22 OK Stat § 22-859 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-859. Substitute for district attorney failing or unable to attend trial or disqualified.

|If the district attorney fails, or is unable to attend at the trial or is disqualified, the court must appoint some attorney at law to perform the duties of the district attorney on such trial. |R.L.1910, § 5908.
22 OK Stat § 22-860.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-860.1. Second or subsequent offenses – Trial procedure.

|In all cases in which the defendant is prosecuted for a second or subsequent offense, except in those cases in which former conviction is an element of the offense, the procedure shall be as follows: |1. The trial shall proceed initially as though the offense charged was the first offense; when the indictment or information is read all reference to prior offenses shall be omitted; during the trial of the case no reference shall be made nor evidence received of prior offenses except as permitted by the rules of evidence; the judge shall instruct the jury only on the offense charged; the jury shall be further instructed to determine only the guilt or innocence on the offense charged, and that punishment at this time shall not be determined by the jury; and2. If the verdict be guilty of the offense charged, that portion of the indictment or information relating to prior offenses shall be read to the jury and evidence of prior offenses shall be received. The court shall then instruct the jury on the law relating to second and subsequent offenses, and the jury shall then retire to determine the fact of former conviction, and the punishment, as in other cases.Added by Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 438, eff. July 1, 1999.
22 OK Stat § 22-861 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-861. Formal exceptions to rulings or orders unnecessary.

|Formal exceptions to rulings or orders of the court in criminal proceedings shall not be necessary but for all purposes for which an exception has heretofore been necessary at the trial of a cause it shall be sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling or order of the court has been made or sought, makes known to the court the action which he desires the court to take or his objection to the action of the court with his general grounds therefor. |Laws 1971, c. 144, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1971.
22 OK Stat § 22-891 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-891. Jury room - Expenses of providing, a county charge.

|A room must be provided by the board of commissioners of a county for the use of the jury, upon their retirement for deliberation, with suitable furniture, fuel, lights and stationery. If the commissioners neglect, the court may order the sheriff to do so, and the expenses incurred by him in carrying the order into effect, when certified by the court, are a county charge. |R.L.1910; § 5910. R.L.1910, § 5912.
22 OK Stat § 22-893 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-893. Jury may have written instructions, forms of verdict and documents injury room - Copies of public or private documents.

|On retiring for deliberation the jury may take with them the written instructions given by the court; the forms of verdict approved by the court, and all papers which have been received as evidence in the cause, except that they shall take copies of such parts of public records or private documents as ought not, in the opinion of the court, to be taken from the person having them in possession. |R.L.1910, § 5912.
22 OK Stat § 22-894 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-894. Jury brought into court for information - Presence of, or notice to, parties.

|After the jury have retired for deliberation, if there be a disagreement between them as to any part of the testimony or if they desire to be informed on a point of law arising in the cause, they must require the officer to conduct them into court. Upon their being brought into court, the information required must be given in the presence of, or after notice to the district attorney and the defendant or his counsel, or after they have been called. |R.L.1910, § 5913.
22 OK Stat § 22-895 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-895. Illness of juror after retirement - Accident or cause preventing keeping together - Discharge.

|If, after the retirement of the jury, one of them become so sick as to prevent the continuance of his duty, or any other accident or cause occur to prevent their being kept together for deliberation, the jury may be discharged. |R.L.1910, § 5914. R.L.1910, § 5914.
22 OK Stat § 22-896 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-896. Discharge after agreement on verdict or showing of inability to agree.

|Except as provided in the last section, the jury cannot be discharged after the cause is submitted to them until they have agreed upon their verdict, and rendered it in open court, unless by the consent of both parties entered upon the minutes, or unless at the expiration of such time as the court deems proper, it satisfactorily appear that there is no reasonable probability that the jury can agree. |R.L.1910, § 5915.
22 OK Stat § 22-897 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 22. Criminal Procedure|§22-897. Retrial after discharge at same or other term.

|In all cases where a jury are discharged or prevented from giving a verdict, by reason of an accident or other cause, except where the defendant is discharged from the indictment or information during the progress of the trial, or after the cause is submitted to them, the cause may be again tried at the same or another term, as the court may direct. |R.L.1910, § 5916.