OPINION
The appellant, Jonathan Morgan, a juvenile, appeals from an order of the Juvenile Division of the District Court, Cherokee County, Case No. JUV-77-14, waiving jurisdiсtion over him and empowering the State to prosecute him as an adult for the crime of Murder in the First Degree.
The evidence presented at the hearing was that on March 26, 1977, at approximately 6:00 p. m., Mr. Virgle Potts, 83 years of age, was watching the evening news in his home in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, when a youth with long hair dragged Mrs. Potts, struggling, into the room from the back part of the house. The youth demanded money and threatened to shoot them if they failed to comрly. When Mr. Potts secured a box containing money, the youth threw or kicked Mrs. Potts against a table, and took the money box from Mr. Potts. Mrs. Potts seized a stick and begаn striking the youth, who disarmed her and struck Mr. Potts in the face with the stick, knocking him to the floor. He inflicted several blows bn Mrs. Potts, seized Mr. Potts’ wallet, and fled from the home.
Shortly thereafter, Mrs. Potts went to the home of a neighbor, Mr. Suttle Wheeler, who called the police and advised them of the attack and robbery. The рolice arrived at approximately 7:00 p. m. and, apparently securing a description of the assailant, left. They returned shortly thereafter with the defendant in custody.
Mr. Wheeler testified over the defendant’s objections that at that time both Mr. and Mrs. Potts positively identified the defendant as their assailant and robber, and that the defendant remained silent.
During this time Mrs. Potts treated the cut on her husband’s face. Although complaining of pain in her chest, she declinеd the offer of the police to take her to the hospital. By midnight, however, Mrs. Potts’ condition had worsened, and she was taken to the hospital, wherе she died forty-five minutes later as a result of internal injuries she had sustained during the attack.
*476 Mr. Potts, who appeared at the hearing in borrowed glasses that hаd no lenses, testified that at first he took the intruder to be “the Chaney boy,” who had been in the house earlier that day. His initial in-court identification of the defеndant as the assailant was not firm; but subsequently on cross-examination, and again on redirect-examination, he positively stated that the defendant was the person.
On appeal the defendant’s principal assignment of error is that the finding of nonamenability to rehabilitation within the juvenile system was not supрorted by sufficient evidence. In his argument the defendant correctly states the law that a finding of nonamenability must be based on substantial evidence,
J. T. P. v. State,
Okl. Cr.,
The other assignments of error raised by the defendant — that the statement of reasons given by the court in its order of certification is insufficient to permit a meaningful review, and that the defendant was denied due prоcess of law and equal protection of the law by the procedure followed by the trial court — were not argued in his brief. After a careful review of the record, we hold that these assignments are also without merit. In his order of certification the judge carefully set out the reasons for his finding; and we find no constitutional deficiencies in the proceedings.
Although not specifically argued at length, the sufficiency of the evidence as to prosеcutive merit has been raised. In this connection, the uncontroverted evidence established that Mrs. Potts died as a result of injuries inflicted during the course of the robbery in her home on the 26th day of March. This clearly establishes the corpus delicti of the crime of Murder. Because of Mr. Potts’ poor vision, сounsel for the defense raised on cross-examination a substantial factual issue for determination by the trial court, as to the reliability of the in-cоurt identification by Mr. Potts of the defendant as the perpetrator. However, the testimony of Mr. Potts was certainly sufficient to support the finding of the judge in this Cеrtification Proceeding. As we stated in
Turner
v.
State,
Okl.Cr.,
In conclusion we obsеrve that during the course of the certification proceeding, over the objections of defense counsel, the neighbor, Mr. Wheeler, was permitted to testify concerning the identification of the defendant made by the victim Mrs.
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Potts, at the Potts’ residence. The identification occurred about оne hour after the commission of the robbery at a point in time when the victim had refused medical treatment, and while the defendant was in custody. It is therefore clear that this testimony was not admissible as a part of the res gestae, since a substantial length of time had passed and it was not contempоraneous with the attack or so closely related thereto as to render it admissible. It is likewise clear that the admission of the same could not be justified as a dying declaration, since at the time of the identification the victim did not believe that she was so seriously injured as to require hospitalization. Nor can its admission be justified under the theory that the accusatory statement was made in the presence of the defendant, and his silence amounted to an admission of its truthfulness. We have repeatedly held that it is a violation of the defendant’s constitutional right of confrontation, guaranteed by Artiсle 2, § 20 of the Oklahoma Constitution, for the trial court to admit the testimony of a witness relating statements of a third party which tend to incriminate the defendant, аnd which were made in the presence of a defendant while in custody and particularly is this true when such third party has not testified as a witness in the case and has not been subjected to cross-examination by the accused. See
Hazelwood v. State,
Okl.Cr.,
For the above and foregoing reasons the Order of the trial court certifying the defendant to stand trial as an adult is AFFIRMED.