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(Alva's First Homicide - 9 November 1910)

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Application for Extension of Time

And thereafter on the 7th day of November, A.D. 1911, an Application for Extension of Time was filed in the District Court of Woodward County, State of Oklahoma, which Application in words and figures is as foolows, to-wit:

State of Oklahoma, Plaintiff
vs. -- Case 714 Woodward Co., OK
N. L. Miller, Defendant

Application for Extension of Time

Comes now said defendant, N. L. Miller and respectfully represents and shows to the Court that the Official Reporter of this Court, who took short hand notes at the trial of the above entitled cause, is now busily engaged in his official duties as reporter of this Court, and is also busily engaged in making transcripts for the Appellate Courts of this State in cases tried in this Court before the trial of the above entitled cause was had, and that it will be impossible to him to make a case-made and transcript for the Criminal Court of Appeals in the time heretofore granted for making and serving a case-made in the above entitled cause.

Therefore said defendant asks that he be given 60 days additional time to that heretofore given in which to make and serve a case-made, and that he be given until the 1st day of March 1912 in which to file his Petition in Error and case-made in the Criminal Court of Appeals.

L. T. Wilson & Charles Swindall
Attorneys for Defendant, N. L. Miller

This November 1st. 1911

Thereupon on this 3rd day of November 1911 the foregoing application for an extension of time in which to make and serve a case-made and to perfect appeal, filed by defendant herein was presented to the court, and the Court after due consideration of the same and being fully advised in the premises finds that the prayer of said application should be granted and makes the order as follows to-wit:

State of Oklahoma, Plaintiff
vs. -- Case 714 Woodward Co., OK
N. L. Miller, Defendant

Now on this 3rd day of November 1911 the application of said defendant N. L. Miller for an extension of time in which to make and serve a case-made and perfect his appeal having been presented to the Court and after due consideration of the same and being fully advised in the premises finds that the time heretofore given said defendant to wit 60 days from the 15th day of October 1911 in insufficient and that said defendant should have 60 days in addition to the time heretofore granted in which to make and serve a case-made, and further time to wit till the 20th day of February 1912 in which to perfect his appeal.

It is therefore considered, ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the Court that said N. L. Miller be given 60 days in addition to the time heretofore given, in which to make and serve a case-made for the Criminal Court of Appeals of the State of Oklahoma. The State to have 20 days in which to suggest amenments, the case to be settled and signed on ten days notice, and the defendant given until the 1st day of March 1912 in which to file his petition in Error and case-made in the Criminal Court of Appeals of the State of Oklahoma.

James B. Cullison
District Judge

Case #714 - Woodward, Oklahoma
Filed, Nov. 7, 1911
Jerry Coover, District Clerk

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