Hanson v State

Hanson v State
1941 OK CR 166
119 P.2d 874
73 Okl.Cr. 223
Decided: 11/26/1941
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Appeal and Error-Rule of Court Applying Where no Counsel Appears and no Briefs Filed.

Appeal from County Court, Dewey County; C. R. Duncan, Judge.

Bill Hanson was convicted of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Affirmed.

C. B. Wood, of Fairview, for defendant.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., J Walker Field, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. W. Wilcox, Co. Atty., of Taloga, for the State.

PER CURIAM. Bill Hanson was convicted in the county court of Dewey county of the crime of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, to wit: about eleven pints of bonded whisky; and his punishment assessed at a fine of $50 and 30 days imprisonment in the county jail.

Defendant appealed to this court on the 8th day of April, 1941, but no brief has been filed in support of his assignment of errors. This case was submitted on the 13th day of November, 1941, after notice was given to defendant, on motion to dismiss by the Attorney General. The time granted defendant to file brief in this case has expired.

Rule 9 of this court provides:

"When no counsel appears, and no briefs are filed, the court will examine the pleadings, the instructions of the court, and the exceptions taken thereto, and the

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judgment and sentence, and if no prejudicial error appears, will affirm the judgment."