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Oklahoma · Snapshot open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14

Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-694: Certain common law rules abolished

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  2. Title 21

A. The rules of the common law distinguishing the killing of a

master by his servant and of a husband by his wife as petit treason

are abolished and these offenses are deemed homicides, punishable in

the manner prescribed by Section 691 et seq. of this title.

B. The rule of the common law providing that a death occurring

after a year and a day from the date of a criminal corporal injury

is irrebuttably presumed not to be the result of that injury is

abolished.

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