Ellison v. State

SIMMS, Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Ralph B. Ellison, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was charged by information in the District Court of Oklahoma County with the crime of Possession of Narcotics, After Former Conviction of a Felony. He was tried by a jury, found guilty, and his punishment assessed at Twenty Years in the penitentiary. From that judgment and sentence he has appealed to this Court.

From the record and transcript the facts of the case, briefly, are as follows: Officers C. R. Acox and Don Schimmels, Detectives with the Oklahoma City Police Department, testified that on…