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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Major County, Oklahoma, USA · 1947

United States (1947): revival minister's conviction affirmed for abusing a boy entrusted by his mother

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Appellate history

  • 1947

    Affirmed (84 Okla. Crim. 76). A separate earlier Cole conviction was reversed (83 Okla. Cr. 254) and is not asserted.

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

minister of the Gospel conducting a revival

Organization

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A mother handed her son to the visiting revival minister overnight because of what he was — the trust was the office's.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

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Proceedings

  1. 1947-01-01 · conviction affirmed

    Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals (Cole v. State, 84 Okla. Crim. 76, 179 P.2d 176). Kenneth Isaac Cole, a minister conducting a revival in Major County, was convicted of sodomy against a fourteen-year-old boy whose family attended his revival services — he obtained the mother's consent for the boy to stay overnight with him — and sentenced to two and a half years. The appellate court affirmed in 1947.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • the mother's consent for the boy to stay overnight, obtained through his ministerial standing

Cited record

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official court judgment appellate judgment Cole v. State, 84 Okla. Crim. 76, 179 P.2d 176 (Okla. Crim. App. 1947).

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https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4051849/cole-v-state/ Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment. SHA-256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
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