State v. Morgan
| Decision Date | 26 November 1947 |
| Docket Number | A-10745. |
| Citation | 187 P.2d 273,85 Okla.Crim. 246 |
| Parties | STATE v. MORGAN. |
| Court | United States State Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma. Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma |
Appeal from County Court, Pittsburg County; W. E. Gotcher, Judge.
John Wesley Morgan was charged by information with sale of intoxicating beverage without license. From an order refusing to sustain the State's motion to strike from the files the defendant's motion to dismiss the information, and sustaining the defendant's motion to dismiss the information, the State appeals on reserved questions of law.
Affirmed.
Syllabus by the Court.
Where the State appeals on a reserved question of law, and no brief is filed and no appearance made when the case is called for submission, it may be assumed that the appeal has been abandoned and the judgment will be affirmed.
Tom Haile, of McAlester, County Atty., for plaintiff in error.
W. N Redwine, of McAlester, for defendant in error.
This is an appeal by the State of Oklahoma on a reserved question of law. The grounds of said appeal are as follows: On January 14, 1946, petition was filed in the county court of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, against John Wesley Morgan, seeking the revocation of a non-intoxicating beverage license, issued to him in the town of Hartshorne. On January 22, 1946, after hearing thereon, the license was revoked. On the same day notice of appeal was given, an appeal bond made and approved. It appears that when this was done, the county court refused to suspend said license, under the provisions of Title 37 O.S.A. § 162h, as follows: 'If an appeal is taken, as herein provided, the county judge may suspend such permit pending final determination of the appeal by the district court.' On that same day, the county attorney having information the defendant sold a non-intoxicating beverage, charged him, by information, with the sale of the same in violation of Title 37 O.S.A. §§ 162 q, and 162e, subsection (c), providing against the sale of such beverage without a license and fixing a penalty therefor.
A motion to dismiss the action was filed by the defendant. The State then moved that the court strike from the files the motion to dismiss. For the purpose of the appeal herein, the county attorney was permitted to amend the information to show the violation occurred on the 23rd of January, 1946 instead of on the 22nd of January, 1946. This appeal was taken on the court's refusal to sustain the State's ...
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