Oklahoma § 22-1072 - Record and enforcement of mandate or order in lower court

§ 22-1072. Record and enforcement of mandate or order in lower court

- Return by clerk of lower court to clerk of Criminal Court of

Appeals.

It is hereby made the duty of the court clerk in all counties,

upon receipt from the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Appeals of any

mandate or order of the Criminal Court of Appeals, to immediately

and without any order from the court, or judge thereof, to spread

said mandate or order of record in the proper court, and to issue

and place in the hands of the proper officer appropriate process for

carrying out such mandate or order.

That it shall be the duty of any such court clerk to immediately

upon return being made by the officer to whom process is delivered,

to thereafter make return to the Clerk of the Criminal Court of

Appeals, showing the date that mandate was received, date filed and

recorded, the date process was issued to the officer, and the date

the process was served and whether the convicted person was

incarcerated. If incarceration of the prisoner is delayed by reason

of flight, or for any other cause for a period of more than fifteen

(15) days after receipt of mandate, the return, under any such

circumstance causing delay, must be immediately made to the Clerk of

the Criminal Court of Appeals; and upon later apprehension of

prisoner and incarceration, a further return must be made to the

Clerk of the Criminal Court of Appeals, reporting the facts, within

ten (10) days after such incarceration.

Laws 1927, c. 28, p. 46, § 1; Laws 1953, p. 99, § 3.