Cummings v. State

The plaintiffs in error, hereinafter called defendants, were convicted in the county court of Tulsa county on a charge of having the possession of a still, and the defendant Cummings was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to be imprisoned in the county jail for a term of 180 days, and the defendant Rice was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and to be imprisoned in the county jail for a term of 30 days.

The record discloses that on the date charged two officers were looking for one Bennett, a son-in-law of defendant Cummings, intending to arrest him for a misdemeanor, although they had no…