Case ID: f_222/html/1022-01.html
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Author: {"author": "HOOK, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CRITES v. UNITED STATES.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
    May 3, 1915.)
    No. 4257.
    In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
    A. F. Moss, of Tulsa, Okl. (H. B. Martin, of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for plaintiff in error.
    Carter Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Muskogee, Okl. (D. H. Linebaugh, U. S.- Atty., of Muskogee, Okl., on the brief), for the United States.
    Before HOOK and CAR-LAND, Circuit Judges, and AMIDON, District Judge
   HOOK, Circuit Judge.

Crites was convicted of the offense of introducing and carrying intoxicating liquor from without the state of Oklahoma into that part of the state which was formerly Indian Territory, contrary to Act March 1, 1895, c. 145, § 8, 28 Stat. 697. We do not think the evidence sufficient to Justify the conviction. The sentence is reversed, and the ■cause is remanded for a new trial.