Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, 1913

Tomerlin v. State

Tomerlin v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · Decided April 5, 1913 · PER CURIAM.
131 P. 1198; 9 Okla. Crim. 716; 1913 OK CR 182; 1913 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 154

Tomerlin v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff in error, Jess Tomerlin, was convicted at the January, 1912, term of the county court of Oklahoma county, on a charge of operating a roulette wheel, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of four months. This is a companion case to the Cecil *717 Proctor case decided at the present term of court* For the reasons given in that case the judgment in this case is reversed and the cause remanded with direction to the trial court to grant a new trial and require the county attorney to file a proper information and proceed according to law.

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