In view of that decision, the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals was vacated and the case remanded.
In addition, he helped to create the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 1908.
The tribe then appealed to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals which affirmed the trial court's decision.
In 2004, Duty filed an appeal with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
Cooper appealed, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed both the conviction and the sentence.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reviews the record to determine:
He was elected judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in November 1926.
Because the Oklahoma Supreme has neither the time nor resources to hear all cases brought before it, the state created the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.
In 1993, he became a staff attorney for Judge Carl Jones of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied a motion for a second stay hours before the execution.