Court Opinion

ID: 9790231
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:49:21.933628+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:47:11.187085
License: Public Domain

BRETT, P. J.,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent to this decision. Under the present Oklahoma Court System, the reasons formerly given for the inapplicability of 22 O.S.1971, § 508, are not justified. In State v. Stout, supra, this Court stated, concerning § 508 and other related sections:
“The above statutes apply only to felony cases, and do not apply in the case of misdemeanors for the reason that the county court is without authority to direct a case to be resubmitted to a grand jury.”
When the court structure was reorganized by the 1969 amendment to Article VII, to the Oklahoma Constitution, the county court was abolished. Misdemeanor cases are now tried in the district court, which has authority to resubmit the case to another grand jury or direct that a new information be filed.