Case Name: JOHN CLARY v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1911-05-23
Citations: 6 Okla. Crim. 597
Docket Number: No. A-581
Parties: JOHN CLARY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 597–597

Head Matter:
JOHN CLARY v. STATE.
No. A-581.
Opinion Filed May 23, 1911.
Appeal from Seminole County Court; T. S. Cobb, Jugde.
John Clary was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Davis & Davis, for plaintiff in error.
Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

Opinion:
PEE CUEIAM.
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Seminole county court at the October, 1909, term, on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one hundred fifty dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of thirty days. The record in this ease discloses the fact that this was a very strenuous trial. The trial judge seems to have overlooked the fact that it was his duty to preside in a fair and impartial manner, and in a great many ways he was guilty of conduct prejudicial to the substantial rights of the plaintiff in error. It would be a gross miscarriage of* justice to permit a conviction to stand, had under proceedings as are disclosed by this record. The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.