Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, 1919

Adams v. State

Adams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · Decided March 11, 1919 · PER CURIAM.
177 P. 626; 15 Okla. Crim. 684; 1919 OK CR 61; 1919 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 35

Adams v. State

Opinion of the Court

The appeals in the above entitled and numbered cases are from judgments of the district court of Payne county, rendered in accordance with the verdicts returned by the jury in each of said causes. The information in each case charged the defendant with keeping a place in the town of Yale, Payne county, with the intent and purpose of selling intoxicating liquors.

In the case of Proctor v. State, 15 Okla. Cr. 338,176 P. 771, the statute (sec. 4, ch. 26, Session Laws 1913) upon which these prosecutions were based was held unconstitutional and void. For the reasons stated in that opinion, the judgments appealed from are reversed.

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