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Ex Parte Bell

Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma
Jul 18, 1935
57 Okla. Crim. 257 (Okla. Crim. App. 1935)

Opinion

No. A-8960.

July 18, 1935.

(Syllabus.)

Judgment and Sentence — Trial Judge Held Without Power to Revoke Suspended Sentence After Expiration of Term of Sentence. Where a youth has been sentenced for an offense imposing confinement in the state reformatory for a term of two years, and such sentence is suspended during good behavior under the provisions of sections 2803 and 2804, Compiled Statutes 1921, the language "to report to the judge of the court wherein convicted, at each succeeding term during the pendency of said judgment, or when required by the court or judge," imports that the sentence can be revoked only within the period imposed in the sentence, and that a revocation of a parole after that period is ineffective, and after that period the court is without power to enforce the original judgment.

Original proceeding in habeas corpus by T. J. Bell against the warden of the state penitentiary. Writ granted and petitioner discharged.

T. J. Bell, pro se.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus. Petitioner alleges he is unlawfully restrained by the warden of the state penitentiary. That on the 27th day of February, 1929, he was convicted in the district court of Choctaw county, on his plea of guilty of theft of domestic fowls, and was sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary. That at the time he was under twenty-one years of age, and under the authority of sections 2803 and 2804 C. O. S. 1921, his sentence was suspended by the trial judge. That thereafter, on the 11th day of April, 1934, the district judge of said Choctaw county made an order attempting to revoke the suspended sentence made at the time of said sentence, and ordering petitioner to serve said sentence.

This court in the case of Ex parte King, 40 Okla. Cr. 21, 266 P. 511, and in other cases has held that suspended sentences can be revoked only during the term of said sentence; that after the expiration of the term the sentence is discharged and the district court is without power to revoke.

It follows that the writ should be granted and the petitioner discharged. It is so ordered.

DAVENPORT, P. J., and DOYLE, J., concur.


Summaries of

Ex Parte Bell

Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma
Jul 18, 1935
57 Okla. Crim. 257 (Okla. Crim. App. 1935)
Case details for

Ex Parte Bell

Case Details

Full title:Ex parte T. J. BELL

Court:Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma

Date published: Jul 18, 1935

Citations

57 Okla. Crim. 257 (Okla. Crim. App. 1935)
47 P.2d 886

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