Evans v. State

The plaintiff in error, R. C. Evans, here designated the defendant, was found guilty of the illegal transportation of whisky, with his punishment fixed at a fine of $100 and 60 days in jail.

The testimony discloses that certain peace officers searched the car of the defendant without a search warrant while the car was standing in a public alley in Tulsa. They found 45 pint bottles of whisky in the car. Some of this they found while the car stood in the alley, before the defendant came up, and the major portion they recovered as the defendant was in the act of driving away. The defendant had…