Burns v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Washita county on a charge of unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquors, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $250 and he imprisoned in the county jail for 60 days.

At the beginning of the term of court, and before the jury had been impaneled, the court read to the jury the statement or admonition contained in the case of Pate v. State, 15 Okla. Cr. 92, 93, 175 Pac. 122. The defendant complains that the delivery of this admonition to the jury panel was highly prejudicial to the rights of this…