Al Cokely was an American outlaw who was active in the Arizona Territory during the Wild West era. In August 1883, he took part in a stagecoach robbery in southern Arizona, and the authorities in Tucson sent a telegram to Tombstone sheriff Clay Hollister to warn him of Cokely's approach. Hollister decided to ride out of town to apprehend Cokely without risking civilian casualties, and he successfully apprehended him and brought him back to Tombstone's jail. There, however, he discovered from the Tombstone Epitaph editor Harris Claibourne that an aspiring lawman, Jake Hoyt, had shot the traveling salesman George Butler dead after mistaking him for Cokely.