Foster v. StateFoster v. State
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Plаintiff in error was convicted in the district court of Garvin county on an infоrmation which charged that, cn or about the 19th day of May, 1911, Jonah Fоster did escape from the county jail of Garvin county, a prisоn other than the state prison; the said Jonah Foster being then and there a prisoner confined in said county jail of Garvin county. The infоrmation was filed May 23d; on the same day he was arraigned and entеred a plea of guilty, and’ was thereupon sentenced to imрrisonment in the penitentiary for a term of one year and onе day. The following day plaintiff in error employed counsel and hаd a motion prepared asking that he be permitted, upon the grounds and reasons therein set forth, to withdraw his plea of guilty, and that hе be granted a trial, which motion was overruled.
On May 27th, 1911, in execution of the judgment, plaintiff in error was delivered to the warden of the penitentiary, where *719 be remained confined until released upon аn- order of supersedeas made by this court, when his appeal to this court had been perfected. April 10, 1912, the Attorney” Generаl and the county attorney filed in this court a motion to remand, with instructiоns to dismiss, in part as follows:
“This prosecution was had under the provisions of section .2164, Compiled Laws of Oklahoma 1909, Snyder, when in t^uth this plaintiff should hаve been prosecuted under the provisions of section 7073, Id., аs the admitted facts in this case are that plaintiff in error-had beеn convicted of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor in said county, and pursuant to such conviction was confined in the county jail оf said county, and was by order of the board of county commissioners required to work on the public highways therein; that, while so employеd, he escaped and was thereafter captured by the sheriff, and this charge was lodged against him. Such escape was accomplished without.the use of force or fraud. Plaintiff in error has аlready been committed in the state penitentiary under this chargе for the period of four months, and the county attorney of Garvin сounty is of the opinion that he has been sufficiently punished under a mistаken apprehension as to what the law was. Therefore we respectfully suggest that the district court of Garvin county was without jurisdictiоn in this case, and the same should be remanded to the said district cоurt with instructions that it be dismissed.”
. Presumably the district court assumed jurisdiction on the thеory that a violation of section 2164 of the Penal Code was charged.
Section 7073, Code of Criminal Procedure, -provides:
“If any person who may be imprisoned pursuant to a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail, or any person who shall be committed for the purpose of detaining him for trial, for any offеnse not capital, shall break prison and escape, hе shall be imprisoned in the county jail for the term of six months.”
The offense charged in the information constitutes a misdemeanor under the аforesaid section 7073, and the district court was without jurisdiction or pоwer to try the information, or to render the judgment of conviction, оr to issue the commitment thereon.
In Ex parte Martin, 6 Okla. Cr. 224, 118 Pac. 155, it is said:
“As we view these provisions, they are not repugnant; and, while they were passed by the same Legislаture, section 7073 is *720 the later act, having been approved subsequently to section 2164. If there is any repugnancy, the later act must prevail.”
The confession of error is confirmed, and the judgment of the district court of Garvin county is reversed, and the cause remanded thereto, with direction to dismiss.
ARMSTRONG, P. J., and FURMAN, J., concur.