Pruitt v State

Pruitt v State
1930 OK CR 295
289 P. 800
48 Okl.Cr. 69
Decided: 06/21/1930
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Evidence Evidence Obtained by Illegal Search.

Appeal from County Court, Carter County; Arthur Grunert, Judge.

Dewey Pruitt was convicted of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Reversed.

John L. Hodge, for plaintiff in error.

The Attorney General, for the State.

PER CURIAM. The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Carter county on a charge of having unlawful possession of whisky, and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine

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of $50, and confinement in the county jail for a period of thirty days.

The state obtained a search warrant to search the buildings and premises located on lots 7 and 8 in block 13, in the South part of Healdton, Carter county, while the evidence showed that the state searched lots 7 and 8 in block 8 in the city of Healdton, and that the liquor seized was obtained by searching the latter premises.