Godfrey v State

Godfrey v State
1919 OK CR 216
182 P. 251
16 Okl.Cr. 690
Decided: 07/09/1919
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from District Court, Logan County; John R. Hickam, Judge.

Henry Godfrey was convicted of keeping a place with the intent to sell intoxicating liquors, and he appeals. Reversed.

H.C. Olds, for plaintiff in error.

W.C. Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM. Plaintiff in error, Henry Godfrey, was convicted on an information charging that he did keep a place in the city of Guthrie with the felonious intent to sell intoxicating liquors, and on the 26th day of November, 1918, he was sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the term of two years and to pay a fine of $250. To reverse the judgment an appeal was duly perfected.

In the case of Proctor v. State, 15 Okla. Cr. 338, 176 P. 771, the statute upon which the prosecution in this case was based was held

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