Legal Opinion

Whisenhunt v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided April 8, 1970No. A-14806Published

1Opinion of the Court

BUSSEY, Judge.

James Shirley Whisenhunt was charged, tried and convicted in the Municipal Criminal Court of the City of Tulsa for the offense of Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor, and from the judgment and sentence fixing his punishment at ten days imprisonment and a fine of $250.00, he appeals.

The single assignment of error requiring reversal in the instant case is that the prosecuting authorities failed to establish venue in conformity with the rule enunciated in Sawyer v. State, Okl.Cr., 395 P.2d 589, and cited with approval in Goeppinger v. State,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Sawyer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1964
  2. Goeppinger v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1966

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