STATE v. TAPP

No. 40238.

380 P.2d 260 (1963)

STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. William W. RUCKER, Petitioner, v. Hon. G. Michael TAPP, Assuming to Act as Judge of the Purported Superior Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Respondent, Hon. Raymond A. Trapp, Judge of the Superior Court of Kay County, Oklahoma, Intervenor-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1963.

Second Petition for Rehearing Denied April 9, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.H. Carey, John E. Green, O.A. Cargill, Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Grove, Winters & Cloud, Robert G. Grove, James H. Harrod, County Atty. of Oklahoma County, and John M. Amick, Asst. County Atty., of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma City, for respondent.

Maurice H. DeFord, Jr., Duffy & Johnson, Ponca City, James W. Burger, Blackwell, P.E. Irby, James Duley, Northcutt & Northcutt, Felix Duvall, Leonard Geb, Armstrong, Burns & Baumert, Tom L. Irby, Joseph P. Davies, Roy E. Grantham, George Miller, Lester R. Maris, Marland Johnson, Kent Phipps, O.S. Ellifrit, Donald C. Welch, Charles A. Johnson, Ponca City, R.L. Stimpert, Howard Wilson, Cox & Buhrman, Rodgers & Gurley, Blackwell, Clyde Heltzel, Elmer Rutherford, Robert Colcombe, Tonkawa, Ralph C. Haynes, County Atty. of Kay County, Oklahoma, Newkirk, for intervenor, Hon. Raymond A. Trapp.

Crowe, Boxley, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford & Johnson, Stagner, Alpern & Powers, Lerory Powers, Wheeler, Parsons, Wheeler, Hampton & Kessler, Spencer Lynn, Smith, Jones & Neuffer, McClelland, Collins, Sheehan, Fauss, Bailey & Bailey, Jay R. Bond, J.A. O'Toole, Berry & Berry, Caldwell & Warren, George Caporal, Hubert Gibson, John D. Check, Duke Duvall, Fred M. Black, Fred V. Otto. Fred S. Sanchez, Jimmy Birdsong, Paul Duncan, Frank Miskovsky, Farmer, Kerr & Moslander; George W. Gay, Robert Sherman, Fred M. Mock, Ben Lampkin, Jr., Elliott Fenton, Charles E. Malson, Keys & Theimer, Howard Triggs, Merson & Campbell, Jerry Dick, Harry Merson, Erman S. Price, Richard Swart, Morrison, Rinchart & Cook, Loyd Benefield, Leon Shipp, James W. Shepherd, E.E. Zamrzla, R.R. Williamson, Jr., H. Cook, Oklahoma City, for amici curiae.


PER CURIAM.

The object of this original proceeding is to prohibit the respondent (designated in the caption as "Honorable G. Michael Tapp, assuming to act as Judge of the purported Superior Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma") from completing the impaneling of a grand jury and from exercising any judicial authority in Cause No. 219 upon the docket of the Superior Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

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