Frisby v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Frisby v. State

1911 OK CR 137, 115 P. 472, 5 Okla. Crim. 660, 1911 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 176

CourtCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

DecidedFebruary 6, 1911

DocketNo. A-285.

StatusPublished

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Frisby v. State, 1911 OK CR 137, 115 P. 472, 5 Okla. Crim. 660, 1911 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 176 (Okla. Ct. App. 1911).

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Opinion

ARMSTRONG, Judge.

0. F. Frisby was convicted in the county court of Washita county on the 19th day of January, 1908, on the charge of giving away whisky. At the trial the state’s testimony was introduced and the state rested. Whereupon the appellant announced that he rested and interposed what he terms a demurrer to the evidence of the state. It was overruled by the court. The appellant thereupon asked leave to withdraw his announcement, and the court refused to allow him this privilege. He offered to introduce evidence in his behalf, which was also denied by the court, and the appellant excepted. There are a number of assignments of error in the record; the only ones we deem it necessary to consider are numbers five and six, which raise this particular question. The demurrer to the evidence was not the proper step. What the appellant clearly intended was to have the court advise the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. When the court had refused the relief asked for he should have permitted the appellant to offer testimony in his behalf, and we *661 think it was clearly an abuse of discretion to deny him this right. The appellant filed a motion for a new trial and set this np as one of his grounds, which motion was overruled and he excepted. This motion should have been sustained. It was error in the Gourt to overrule it.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to the court below to grant a new trial.

FURMAN, PresidiNG Judge, and DOYLE, Judge, concur.

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ARMSTRONG, Judge.

0. F. Frisby was convicted in the county court of Washita county on the 19th day of January, 1908, on the charge of giving away whisky. At the trial the state’s testimony was introduced and the state rested. Whereupon the appellant announced that he rested and interposed what he terms a demurrer to the evidence of the state. It was overruled by the court. The appellant thereupon asked leave to withdraw his announcement, and the court refused to allow him this privilege. He offered to introduce evidence in his behalf, which was also denied by the court, and the appellant excepted. There are a number of assignments of error in the record; the only ones we deem it necessary to consider are numbers five and six, which raise this particular question. The demurrer to the evidence was not the proper step. What the appellant clearly intended was to have the court advise the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. When the court had refused the relief asked for he should have permitted the appellant to offer testimony in his behalf, and we *661 think it was clearly an abuse of discretion to deny him this right. The appellant filed a motion for a new trial and set this np as one of his grounds, which motion was overruled and he excepted. This motion should have been sustained. It was error in the Gourt to overrule it.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to the court below to grant a new trial.

FURMAN, PresidiNG Judge, and DOYLE, Judge, concur.

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