Sloan v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Oklahoma county on a charge of manufacturing whisky, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $500 and confinement in the county jail for a period of 6 months.

The defendant contends that the search warrant was void, and that therefore the evidence secured thereunder was inadmissible; the particular objection to the search warrant being that it did not run in the name of the state of Oklahoma.

Article 7, § 19, of the Constitution of Oklahoma provides:

“The style of all writs and processes shall be ‘The State…