Wire v. State

This is an appeal from the court of common pleas of Oklahoma county, wherein Gertrude Wire was tried and found guilty of the offense of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to serve three months in the county jail, and pay a fine of $500. From this judgment and sentence, she has appealed.

The evidence reveals that, on December 6, 1946, about 10 o’clock in the forenoon, Jack Caldwell and Howard Taylor, two city police officers assigned to liquor investigations, went to the Lincoln Inn, at 221 Northwest Tenth Street, in Oklahoma City, and there made a search of the premises,…