Baledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “"Defendant objects to his being held for trial on this evidence. His objections are well-founded for these reasons: "1. Venue of this action lies in Oklahoma County. The Court will take judicial notice of the fact that Northeast Fifteenth Street of Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma County and not Cleveland County. While 22 O.S.A. provides jurisdiction in any county of the State for escape, it does not mandate venue. If it did mandate venue, it would be in direct violation of the defendant's constitutional right to be tried in the County where the offense was committed (Article II, Section 20, of the Oklahoma Constitution). All the cases cited in the annotations of the statute only support jurisdiction, not venue. A defendant could waive venue and plead guilty. When he pleads not guilty and objects to the proceedings, he has waived nothing. "2. There is a total lack of any evidence that defendant `escaped.' All the evidence shows is that his presence was unaccounted for in Oklahoma City for about thirty minutes. He may have gone to a bathroom on a different floor, been stricken with diarrhea, and returned some 35 minutes later only to find everyone had gone off and left him alone. Such is admittedly a ridiculous example, but it is certainly no more ridiculous than `assuming' he committed the crime of escape! "3. There is a total want of competent evidence that defendant is an inmate of the institution from which he allegedly escaped or any other institution in the Department of Cor”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Little Raven