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- Title: Matin v. State
- Author : Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
- Release Date : January 10, 1958
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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1 The record reflects that on the date in question a 9 year old boy and his companion had left the Mullins School after school was dismissed. They were walking along the side of Haines Avenue in the city of Hominy, Oklahoma. The street was flat and without curbs. The 9 year old boy, Ronald Blankenship, was walking along parallel to the street, but off on the edge, pushing his bicycle. While walking along in this manner, a car came up behind him, knocked the bicycle some distance and ran over the boy Blankenship, seriously injuring him. The car continued on down the street and out of sight. The companion boy, Donald Alexander, testified that he did not see the car until it hit his companion and that the car was black and white. The victim, Ronald Blankenship, testified but did not remember any material things about the accident. A witness by the name of Orville Spencer testified that he was driving near the Mullins school in a 46 pickup, approximately 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. and with him was a man by the name of Oril Duncan. That he followed a black car with two men occupants. The car was being driven in an erratic manner and that the car hit the little Blankenship boy 6 to 8 feet off the edge of the street, rolling him under the car. The car drove on and Spencer let Duncan out at the scene of the alleged crime. As Spencer circled the block he saw the same car backing up after having run through a stop sign and upon a curb. Spencer called the highway patrol and after the occupants of the black car were arrested and taken to the police station, Spencer went to the station and observed the two occupants of the car, and testified they were the same persons whom he had seen in the car and he learned their names were Walter Matin and Glen Connolly. The testimony reveals that Walter Matin was a full-blood Indian past 60 years of age. The county attorney in this respect asked:
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