Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, 1972

Menthen v. State

Menthen v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · Decided October 26, 1972
502 P.2d 1304; 1972 OK CR 298; 1972 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 653 (Pacific Reporter, Second Series)

Menthen v. State

Opinion

ORDER MODIFYING JUDGMENT AND SENTENCE

Whereas, the Supreme Court of the United States, 408 U.S. 940, 92 S.Ct. 2878, 33 L.Ed.2d 764, has vacated the opinion of this Court, Okl.Cr., 492 P.2d 351, af-

firming the judgment and sentence rendered in the above styled and numbered cause insofar as it left undisturbed the death sentence, and remanded this cause for reconsideration of this Court in the light of Stewart v. Massachusetts, 408 U.S. 845, 92 S.Ct. 284, 33 L.Ed.2d 744 (1972).

Now, therefore, it is the order of this Court that the judgment and sentence rendered in the District Court of Canadian County, Case No. CR-69-385, .be, and the same is hereby, modified from a sentence of death, to a sentence of life imprisonment.

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