Wing v. StateWing v. State
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Thе plaintiff in error, Herman Eugene Wing, defendant below, was charged by information in the district court of Tulsa County, Oklаhoma, with the crime of second-degree burglary, аllegedly committed ■on December 4, 1959, after formеr conviction. The defendant was tried and conviсted of the crime charged. He was thereafter sentenced to a term of ten years in the pеnitentiary. Judgment was entered accordingly on April 29, 1960, from which this appeal has been perfectеd.
There is but one contention presented in this aрpeal. That contention is that the State in proving the former conviction in Cherokee County, Oklahоma, for burglary in the second degree, allegedly сommitted on May 31, 1953 and upon which judgment and sentencе was entered on April 20, 1954, was appealed tо this Court of Criminal Appeals, and the State did not prove that it had been finalized by affirmance. The reсord in the instant case affords no proof that thе appeal had been decided or had become final by affirmance on appeаl, as is held to be essential in Tice v. State, Okl.Cr., 283 P.2d 872. Such is the lаw in Oklahoma, as set forth in said case, fully outlining the prоof required in such matter. This record confirms the defendant’s contention in the matter of failure of prоof. But, our attention having been called to the fact of appeal to this Court, we have •searched our records for such case and find that defendant was charged, as herein alleged, as а former offender in Cherokee County, and on said date he was convicted .and sentenced; from which judgment he •did appeal to this Court. The records of this Court disclose that the defendant Herman Eugene Wing’s conviction in case No. A-12124 was affirmed herein on February 23, 1955, and was available to the trial •court in Wing v. State, Okl.Cr., 280 P.2d 740, and both that court and this Court may take judicial notiсe of that opinion and its finality.
For an extensive disсussion of this principle, see Frazier v. State, Okl.Cr., 267 P.2d 155, and еspecially a prior conviction for a likе crime before this Court; Ex parte Collins, 76 Okl.Cr. 163, 135 P.2d 61; Dunn v. State, Okl.Cr., 279 P.2d 389.
In the Collins case, supra, this Court specifically said [76 Okl.Cr. 163, 135 P.2d 62]:
“Although the pеtitioner does not so recite, this court takes сognizance of its own records and is familiar with the fаct that petitioner appealed his cоnviction to this court. The same issue was there raisеd and decided adversely to him. Collins v. State, 59 Okl.Cr. 18, 55 P.2d 790.”
We likewisе take judicial notice of our own opinions, Cаrter v. State, Okl.Cr., 292 P.2d 435. This Court being able to take cognizance of its own records and the finality of this defendant’s fоrmer conviction, is compelled to hold that the defendant’s conviction, judgment and sentence herein imposed must be and the same is affirmed.
POWELL, P. J., and NIX, J., concur.