Scales v. State

POWELL, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Gervassie Scales, was tried before a jury in the county court of McCurtain County on a charge of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, was convicted, and her punishment fixed at a fine of $250 and confinement in the county jail for ninety days.

There is but one point raised requiring the attention of this court, and being “That the verdict is contrary to the evidence, and the court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion for the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty.”

On reading the briefs for the appellant, who…