§ 11 Prosecution is by state against person charged.

When someone is charged with a crime in Oklahoma, the case is brought by the State of Oklahoma itself, not by the victim or any private person. The official case name will always list "State of Oklahoma" as the party bringing the charges against the accused person.

This matters because it means the government, through its prosecutors, controls the case. The victim of a crime is an important witness and their input matters, but they don't personally decide whether to file charges, drop charges, or how to handle the case. Those decisions belong to the state's prosecutors, who act on behalf of the public as a whole, not just the individual who was harmed.