Case Name: ALEX NOWLIN v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1912-04-05
Citations: 7 Okla. Crim. 713
Docket Number: No. A-535
Parties: ALEX NOWLIN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 713–714

Head Matter:
ALEX NOWLIN v. STATE.
No. A-535.
Opinion Filed April 5, 1912.
Appeal from District Court, Pittsburg County; Preslie B. Cole, Judge.
Alex Nowlin was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor to a minor, and he appeals.
Reversed.
Sutton & Miller, for plaintiff in error.
Chas. West, Atty. Gen., and Smith C.' Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PEE CUEIAM.
Plaintiff in error was convicted in the district court of Pittsburg county upon an information charging him with selling liquor to a minor and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of one year. The act declaring this offense a felony and fix ing the punishment therefor is unconstitutional and void, and the court therefore had no jurisdiction of the cause. Nowakowski v. State, 6 Okla. Cr. 123, 116 Pac. 351.
This prosecution having been instituted by information and not by indictment, the case is not transferable to the county court, but must be dismissed. Wychoff v. State, 6 Okla. Cr. 122, 116 Pac. 355. The judgment of the district court of Pittsburg county is therefore reversed and remanded with direction to dismiss.