71 Okla. Crim. 136 - Sleeper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Under the decisions of this court from the earliest days of its existence it has uniformly been held that instructions are to be examined in the light of the whole record. In construing Oklahoma Statutes 1931, section 3206, 22 Okla. St. Ann. § 1068, it has been uniformly held that a case will not be reversed by reason of an error in an instruction unless the error was such that had ‘probably resulted in a miscarriage of justice, or constitutes a substantial violation of a constitutional or statutory right/ and that if, after an examination of the entire record, the guilt of the defendant was established to the extent that a retrial of the case would not change the result, that the case would not be reversed. Thompson v. State, 6 Okla. Cr. 50 , 117 P. 216 ; Hooper v. State, 7 Okla. Cr. 43 , 121 P. 1087 ; West v. State, 13 Okla. Cr. 312 , 164 P. 327 , L. R. A. 1917E, 1129; Montgomery v. State, 19 Okla. Cr. 224 , 199 P. 222 ; Holmes v. State, 18 Okla. Cr. 415 , 195 P. 508 ; Quick v. State, 51 Okla. Cr. 121 , 299 P. 242 ; Exline v. State, 48 Okla. Cr. 135 , 289 P. 783 ; Cole v. State, 18 Okla. Cr. 430 , 195 P. 901 ; Cowley v. State, 65 Okla. Cr. 479 , 88 P. 2d 914 ; Williams v. State, 62 Okla. Cr. 394 , 71 P. 2d 781 ; Janeway v. State, 62 Okla. Cr. 264 , 71 P. 2d 130 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 86 Okla. Crim. 21 - Stokes v. State