Case Name: BEN TUCKER v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1912-01-16
Citations: 6 Okla. Crim. 714
Docket Number: No. A-990
Parties: BEN TUCKER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 714–714

Head Matter:
BEN TUCKER v. STATE.
No. A-990.
Opinion Filed January 16, 1912.
Appeal from Oklahoma County Court; Sam I-Iooker, Judge.
Ben Tucker was convicted of violating the prohibitory law, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Guthrie & Cardwell, for pilaintiff in error.
Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff in error was convicted in the county court of Oklahoma county on the 6th day of September, 1910, on a charge of violating the prohibitory law, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one hundred dollars and thirty days in the county jail. The proof in this ease clearly establishes possession, but there is an entire lack of proof on the question of intent. This court has held in a number of eases that possession alone is insufficient to sustain a conviction. The trial court, over the objection of pdaintiff in. error, permitted the state to prove by hearsay that the plaintiff in error paid the special tax to the government. Every line of proof in the record on this point is incompetent and should not have been admitted. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to grant a new trial in accordance with law.