Case Name: P. M. HITT v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1912-01-16
Citations: 6 Okla. Crim. 714
Docket Number: No. A-1050
Parties: P. M. HITT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 714–714

Head Matter:
P. M. HITT v. STATE.
No. A-1050.
Opinion Filed January 16, 1912.
Appeal from Oklahoma County Court; John W. Ilayson, Judge.
P. M. Hitt was convicted of violating the prohibitory law, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Charles Watkins, Joe Jaynes, and Taylor, Pruiett & Sniggs, for plaintiff in error.
Chas. West, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff in error was tried and convicted at the October, 1910, term of the county court of Oklahoma county on a charge of having the unlawful possession of whisky with intent to sell the same, and. on the 26th day. of November, thereafter, his punishment was fixed at a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars and imprisonment in the county jail sixty days. The testimony up>on which this conviction is based tends to show that the plaintiff in error had possession of a certain restaurant in Edmond about the time alleged in the information, but there is no proof that any sale was ever made, or any offer to make a sale, and no other circumstances of an incriminating nature sufficient to sustain this judgment. The transaction out of which the conviction grew shows that less than a bottle of whisky was found in the place at the, time the charge is laid. Let the judgment be reversed, and a new trial awarded.