Williams v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Oklahoma county of the crime of maintaining a public nuisance, and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $500 and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of six months.

Defendant complains that the court erred in giving the following instruction to the jury:

“You are further instructed that evidence of a former raid and arrest of the defendant is admissible solely for impeachment purposes and if you find that such evidence impeaches or tends to impeach the defendant, then, and in that event, you…