Sullivan v State

Sullivan v State
1915 OK CR 181
149 P. 1197
11 Okl.Cr. 740
Case Number: No. A-2301
Decided: 07/01/1915
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from County Court, Hughes County. J. Ross Bailey, Judge.

Page 741

Harry Sullivan, convicted of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors, appeals. Affirmed.

Nichols & Knickerbocker, for plaintiff in error.

R. McMillan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM. The plaintiff in error was convicted on an information which charged that on or about the 18th day of December, 1913, he did unlawfully transport intoxicating liquors from some point unknown to a point near Cockrun & Company's store, in the town of Hanna, Hughes county.

On the 21st day of March, 1914, judgment was rendered and in accordance with the verdict of the jury he was sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and to be confined in the county jail for a period of thirty days.

The evidence shows that the City Marshal of Hanna, arrested the defendant near Cockrun's store and took from him a quart bottle partly filled with alcohol.

The defendant as a witness in his own behalf, testified that he got the bottle at a livery stable. That he picked the bottle up and laid some money down.