Legal Opinion

Billingsley v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided January 5, 1911No. A-169PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from Caddo- County Court; B. F. Holding, Judge. Logan Billingsley was convicted of having in Ms possession intoxicating liquor with the intent to sell same, and he appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

RICHARDSON, Judge.

Plaintiff in error demurred to the information in this ease on the ground that that provision of see. 1 of art. 3 of the act approved March 24, 1908 (sec. 4180, Snyder’s Comp. L. Okla.) which declares it to be unlawful for any person to have in possession any of the liquors mentioned in said section with the intent to sell the same, is unconstitutional and void, because it is not expressed in the title of the act as required by see. 57, art. V of the Constitution; and he assigns the action of the court in overruling the demurrer as error. The title of the act in question is…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. State v. . DowdySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1907
  2. State v. NippertSupreme Court of Kansas · 1906
  3. City of Topeka v. StevensonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1909
  4. State v. ShookSupreme Court of Kansas · 1907
  5. State v. HowardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1898

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Hargis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1926
  2. Weathers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1926
  3. York v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1928
  4. Hargrove v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1913
  5. Thompson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1953

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