Case Name: M. A. STITCH v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1913-12-23
Citations: 10 Okla. Crim. 441
Docket Number: No. A-1857
Parties: M. A. STITCH v. STATE.
Judges: ARMSTRONG, P. J., and DOYRE, J., concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 441–444

Head Matter:
M. A. STITCH v. STATE.
No. A-1857.
Opinion Filed November 15, 1913.
Rehearing Opinion December 23, 1913.
(137 Pac. 887.)
1. ' EVIDENCE — Admissions—Pleading in Civil Action. Where a defendant is upon trial charged with selling whisky or having whisky in his possession with intent to sell the same, it is competent for the state to show, either by direet evidence or by his own admissions, that he was engaged in the business of selling whisky.
2. INTOXICATING LIQUORS — Unlawful Sale — Defense. The fact that a defendant represents a whisky house in another state and delivers whisky on commission to customers in Oklahoma is no defense to a charge for selling such whisky, or having said whisky in his possession with intent to sell same. Landrum v. State, 9 Okla. Or. 599, 132 Pac. 830, reaffirmed. The idea that this court is or ever has been unfriendly to prosecutions for violations of the prohibitory liquor law is absolutely without support in fact, and does great violence to the truth.
Appeal from County Court, Payne County; W. H. Wilcox, Judge.
M. A. Stitch was convicted of violating the prohibition'law, and appeals.
Affirmed, and motion for rehearing overruled.
/. M. Springer, for plaintiff in error.
C. J. Davenport, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The plaintiff in error, M. A. Stitch, was convicted at the January, 1912, term of the county court of Payne county on a charge of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the county jail for a period of six months, and a fine of $200. Upon a careful examination of the record we find' no error sufficient to jus-tif)' a reversal of the judgment. It is therefore in all things affirmed.