White v. State
This text of 1931 OK CR 30 (White v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the district court of Lincoln county of the crime of selling intoxicating liquor, to wit, choctaw beer, to Amel Baucom, a minor 18 years of age, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $200, and be imprisoned in the county jail for six months. Prom which judgment the defendant has appealed to> this court.
The offense is alleged to have taken place on the 12th day of August, 1928, and the testimony shows that the prosecuting witness Amel Baucom was 18 years of age at the time. The witness Baucom and Emery Foster testify they went to the home of the defendant, on the date alleged in the information, and purchased a half gallon of chock beer and drank the same and became intoxicated; later on in the day they bought another half gallon from the defendant.
The defendant denies he sold anything to the prosecuting. witness, and further denies that he was at home on that date. The testimony is conflicting. The jury by its verdict decided the conflict in favor of the state.
Several errors are assigned by the defendant alleged to have been committed by the trial court. After a care *427 ful examination of the errors assigned, we bold they do not possess sufficient merit to warrant a reversal.
The judgment is affirmed.
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1931 OK CR 30, 295 P. 238, 49 Okla. Crim. 425, 1931 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 22, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/white-v-state-oklacrimapp-1931.