White v. State

The plaintiffs in error, hereinafter called defendants, were convicted in the county court of Oklahoma county on a charge of maintaining a public nuisance by keeping a place where intoxicating liquors were kept for sale and where persons congregated for the purpose of buying and drinking intoxicating liquor. Their punishment was fixed by a jury at a fine of $250 for each of them, and each to be confined in the county jail for a period of 90 days.

The evidence of the state is: That W. P. Lindsay and H. O. Brown, deputy sheriffs, arranged with two boys, Fishburn and Turner, to purchase liquor…