Extracted from The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)
Sunday, March 28, 1954

Draper Grigsby Services to Be Here Tuesday

Services for Draper Grigsby, 58, former assistant county attorney for Oklahoma county who died early Saturday at his home, 3309 NW 2? of coronary thrombosis, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Smith-Kernke funeral chapel with burial in Rose Hill abbey.

Grigsby served here as assistant county attorney from 1931 to 1934 under the late Lewis R. Morris, then county attorney. During his four years in office he lost only 14 cases out of the approximately 500 trials in which he participated for the state. The cases lost included only three murder cases.

Much of his success was attributed to an ability to batter holes in defense plans by vitriolic cross examination. Once he became convinced of a defendant's guilt, he conducted a determined and forceful prosecution.

Native of State

It was recorded that the city underworld ``breathed a big sigh of relief'' when he left the assistant county attorney's office in 1934.

A native Oklahoman, Grigsby was born in Norman. His father, the late Jesse Draper Grigsby, was county attorney of Cleveland county and later a county judge and justice of the peace.

Grigsby attended the University of Oklahoma for a short period but interrupted his studies to join the army when the United States entered World War I. After the armistice, he was dismissed as a second lieutenant.

He Lost Election

He resumed the study of law in 1921 and graduated from the law school at Cumberland university in Tenn. He returned to Norman to practice, and was appointed Cleveland county attorney in 1926. In 1929, he was defeated for re-election despite the fact he had won all but five of the 125 cases he had tried.

He moved to Oklahoma City in 1928, practicing law here until he was named by Morris to the assistant county attorney's post in 1931. Returning to private practice in 1934, Grigsby became a member of the firm of Grigsby, Foliart, and Hunt.

Survivors are his wife, Irene Grigsby, of the home; a son, James D. Grigsby, 3309 NW 22; his mother, Mrs. Ella Grigsby, Norman; a sister, Mrs. Inez Spottswood, Norman, and two brothers, James E. Grigsby, 901 NW 37, and Bellamy Grigsby, 3309, NW 22.