Barnes v State

Barnes v State
1918 OK CR 175
176 P. 83
15 Okl.Cr. 265
Case Number: A-3117
Decided: 11/30/1918
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

ARTHUR BARNES
v.
STATE.

APPEAL AND ERROR--Affirmance on Motion for Want of Prosecution.

Appeal from County Court, Okmulgee County; Dudley C. Monk, Judge.

Arthur Barnes was convicted of a violation of the prohibitory liquor law, and he appeals. Affirmed.

S. P. Freeling, Atty. Gen., and R. McMillan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

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PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from the county court of Okmulgee county, in which court the defendant was convicted of the crime of unlawfully conveying intoxicating liquors, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the county jail for a period of six months and to pay a fine of $ 500.

The evidence discloses that the defendant, together with other persons, conveyed by automobile about 120

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quart bottles of whisky from a place where the same had been stored about five miles north of the city of Okmulgee in Okmulgee county, Okla., to the residence of a negro named Sam Simpson, located in the city of Okmulgee.