Case Name: JOHN KNIGHT v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1912-01-16
Citations: 6 Okla. Crim. 715
Docket Number: No. A-1150
Parties: JOHN KNIGHT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 715–715

Head Matter:
JOHN KNIGHT v. STATE.
No. A-1150.
Opinion Filed January 16, 1912.
Appeal from Hughes County Court; P. W. Gardner, Judge.
John Knight was convicted of violating the prohibitory law, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
B. N. Hicks, for plaintiff in error.
Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff in error was convicted at the January, 1911, term of the county court of Hughes county on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of thirty days. The transcript before us is certified as complete. There is no case-made. It appears that the plaintiff in error was tried in the court below without counsel, and that the testimony taken upon the trial was not preserved by reporter. A motion for a new trial was filed which sets up facts tending to show that the rights of the accused were not properly preserved, and as an affirmative' defense to the charge. In view of the fact that the testimony was not taken by the court stenographer, and that the record does not show that the court preserved the rights of the plaintiff in error, we think a new trial should be awarded. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.