Whittington v State

Whittington v State
1931 OK CR 338
1 P.2d 840
51 Okl.Cr. 333
Decided: 07/22/1931
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

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Appeal and Error Review Requisites of Record.

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the trial court and its ruling thereon excepted to and afterwards assigned for error.

Appeal from County Court, Washita County; Jesse Stovall, Judge.

Bill Whittington was convicted of having the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Affirmed.

Emmett N. Sasseen, for plaintiff in error.

J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

EDWARDS, J. The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Washita county on a charge of having the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to serve 60 days in the county jail.

Officers with a search warrant searched the residence of defendant at the town of Sentinel and found one gallon of wine and a considerable quantity of home-brew and one quart of corn whisky; and a half gallon of whisky was found in the bathroom, but as this room was not covered by the search warrant the court struck the consideration of that from the jury. Complaint is made that the evidence is insufficient. This contention is not tenable. There is sufficient evidence to sustain the judgment.

It is also argued that a remark of the trial judge was prejudicial. In the course of the argument, counsel for the state argued that there were five quarts of intoxicating liquor. Defendant's counsel challenged the correctness of this statement, and the court overruled the objection stating the ground of his objection and using the words, "It is just up to the jury to believe it." An exception was taken to the ruling of the court, but no exception

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was taken to the remarks of the court and no error predicated on the remark of the court is assigned in the motion for a new trial. The error is waived.