Lunceford v State

Lunceford v State
1928 OK CR 226
267 P. 1118
40 Okl.Cr. 260
Decided: 06/16/1928
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from County Court, Canadian County; R.J. Kintz, Judge.

Lee Lunceford, convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibitory liquor law, appeals. Reversed and remanded, with direction to dismiss.

E.C. Patton, for plaintiff in error.

Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen., and W.P. Morrison, Co. Atty., for the State.

PER CURIAM. This was an information in the county court of Canadian county against Lee Lunceford, Bob Dunlap, Albin Dunlap, and John Doe, in which the defendants were charged with conspiracy to violate the provisions of the prohibitory liquor law. On his separate trial, appellant, Lee Lunceford, was found guilty, the jury leaving his punishment to be fixed by the court. Motion for new trial was duly filed and overruled, and the court pronounced judgment and sentenced the defendant Lee Lunceford to pay a fine of $500 and confinement in the county jail for six months.

The information in substance charges that in Canadian county, on or about 10th day of August, 1925, the