Cobble v State

Cobble v State
1914 OK CR 162
140 P. 294
11 Okl.Cr. 658
Case Number: No. A-2030
Decided: 06/16/1914
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from County Court, Garvin County; W.R. Wallace, Judge.

Page 659

J.D. Cobble was convicted of a misdemeanor and appeals. Reversed.

Carr & Field, for plaintiff in error.

Chas. West, Atty. Gen., C.J. Davenport, Asst, Atty. Gen, for the State

PER CURIAM. Plaintiff in error was convicted of a violation of the gambling law. On the 1st day of March, 1912, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, the court sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and to be confined in the county jail for thirty days. To reverse the judgment, the defendant appealed. The Attorney General has filed herein the following confession of error:

"Comes now the state of Oklahoma by the Attorney General and respectfully calls the court's attention to the charging part of the information filed in this case, which is in words and figures as follows: That the said J.D. Cobble did then and there unlawfully and willfully conduct as owner and for hire a certain device, to-wit: a slot machine for money, checks and credit and other representative per cent value against the peace and dignity of the state.'