Court Opinion

ID: 5147417
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 01:37:13.640759+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:23:14.229285
License: Public Domain

[1] Mary Katherine Jones plead Guilty to the crime of Petit Larceny After A Former Conviction of a Felony in the District Court of Oklahoma County; and was sentenced to One Year in the penitentiary. From that judgment and sentence she attempts to appeal to this Court.
[2] The State has filed a Motion to Dismiss, and while this Court is of the opinion that it is well taken, and should be sustained; the question raised herein is of a jurisdictional nature which could be raised on habeas corpus. We will, therefore, briefly discuss the one allegation raised by counsel, which is:
 "That the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution operated to carry over to the State Courts the guarantee of the Fifth Amendment — that no man could be placed on trial for a felony except upon an indictment by Grand Jury — thereby eliminating preliminary proceedings."
[3] This question has been decided (adversely to the above allegation) in an early case, In re McNaught, 1 Okla. Cr. 528,99 P. 241, *Page 998 
which is very exhaustive and comprehensive. In a similar case, decided this 17th day of November, 1965, Miller v. State407 P.2d 1000, this Court again re-affirms this opinion, and we deem the above allegation of defendant without merit. The judgment and sentence appealed from is hereby affirmed.
[4] BUSSEY, P.J., and BRETT, concur.