Mahaffey v State

Mahaffey v State
1931 OK CR 268
299 P. 927
51 Okl.Cr. 100
Decided: 05/29/1931
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from County Court, Jefferson County; J.H. Harper, Judge.

John Mahaffey was convicted of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Reversed.

Bridges & Ivy, for plaintiff in error.

J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., and J.H. Lawson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM. Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Jefferson

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county of the crime of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $250 and imprisonment in the county jail for 90 days.

The evidence of the state was that they searched the defendant's premises and found no intoxicating liquor; that a pint of liquor had been recently broken at the barn, but the officers saw neither the defendant nor any member of his family at the barn, but they were in the house eating breakfast; that about 60 steps from the house, on a vacant lot, the officers found a five-gallon keg and three half-gallon jars of whisky. There was no proof to connect the defendant with the possession of the liquor so found.