Batson v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of McClain county on a charge of having possession of a substitute for a still, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and be imprisoned in the county jail for 30 days. Motion for new trial was filed, overruled, and exceptions saved, and the case appealed to this court.

The charging part of the information is: “That Osward Batson did, in McClain county, and in the state of Oklahoma, on or about the 8th day of May, 1927, and! anterior to the presentment hereof, commit the crime of having in his possession a…