Case Name: JESS TOMERLIN v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1913-04-05
Citations: 9 Okla. Crim. 716
Docket Number: No. A-1722
Parties: JESS TOMERLIN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 716–717

Head Matter:
JESS TOMERLIN v. STATE.
No. A-1722.
Opinion Filed April 5, 1913.
Appeal from Oklahoma County Court; John W. Hayson, Judge.
Jess Tomerlin was convicted ,of operating a gambling game, and appeals.
Reversed,
Pruiett, Sniggs & Wilson and Kistler, McAdams & Haskell, for plaintiff in error.
Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State. Herbert M. Peck, of counsel.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff in error, Jess Tomerlin, was convicted at the January, 1912, term of the county court of Oklahoma county, on a charge of operating a roulette wheel, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of four months. This is a companion case to the Cecil Proctor case decided at the present term of court* For the reasons given in that case the judgment in this case is reversed and the cause remanded with direction to the trial court to grant a new trial and require the county attorney to file a proper information and proceed according to law.