Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma April 15, 1908, No. 27. (Ex Parte Buchanen)

Williams, C. J.

(after stating the facts as above). We have decided at this term of the court in the case of

Ex parte Bailey,

reported in this volume, 94 Pac. 442, that an indictment for the crime of murder — an offense committed under the territory

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of Oklahoma — returned after the admission of the state into the Union, where no prosecution whatever had been begun before such date of