Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, 1972

Koonce v. State

Koonce v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · Decided October 26, 1972 · Per Curiam
502 P.2d 1048; 1972 OK CR 297; 1972 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 652 (Pacific Reporter, Second Series)

Koonce v. State

Opinion

ORDER MODIFYING JUDGMENT -AND SENTENCE

PER CURIAM.

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States has vacated the opinion of this Court affirming 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. 2845, 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 Lincoln County, Case No. C-3298, be, and the same is hereby, modified from a sentence of death, to a sentence of life imprisonment.

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