Plаintiffs in error, hereinafter called defendants, were convicted in thе county court of Washita county of the crime of unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor, and their punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $50 eaсh and imprisonment for a period of 30 days for each of them in the county jail.
The evidence of the state was that the officers saw the defendants driving their automobile upon the public highway; that the car wаs weaving back and forth on the road, and from this and the actions of thе defendants the officers believed defendants were driving on the highway while intoxicated; that they followed them for several miles to see whаt they would do; that they were about ten steps behind them and could smell whisky; thаt they saw some liquid running out of the car and saw one of the defendants throw a half-gallon jar out of the car; that the officers commanded defendants to stop, and, when they did not do so, one of the officers fired at the tires on defendants’ car; that when the car Avas stopped they arrested defendants and searched their car and found twо glass jar lids Avith whisky in them; that they picked the jar up off of the ground and put whisky in it and brought the defendants to town and filed the complaint against them.
The defendants did not take the witness stand.
It was admitted by the state that the officers had no warrant for the arrest of the defendants, nor any warrant to search the car.
*413 The only question in the сase is the legality of the arrest and the admissibility of the evidence.
Aсcording to the testimony of the officers, the defendants were violating the law in their presence by driving this automobile upon the highway while they wеre intoxicated.
According to the testimony of the officers, the defendants were committing a misdemeanor in their presence in transрorting this liquor, which was known to the officers by smell and sight for some time prior to the stopping and arrest of defendants.
It is undisputed that the officers arrested the defendants before any search was made.
Sectiоn 7014, O. O. S. 1921, not only gives the officers the right, but makes it their duty, to arrest without a warrant where the offense is being committed in their presence.
“When any person is lawfully arrested by an officer without a warrant for an offense committed or attempted in his presence, the officer may take from the person and immediate presence of the arrested person the tools, implements, papers, and instrumentalities which hаve been or manifestly may be used to commit the crime for which such рerson is arrested, and the seizure of such instru-mentalities in such case is not in violation of the Bill of Rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Rambo v. State,38 Okla. Cr. 192 ,259 Pac. 602 . See, also, Rhodes v. State,46 Okla. Cr. 219 ,287 Pac. 812 ; Carter v. State,43 Okla. Cr. 44 ,279 Pac. 690 .
In McAdams v. State,
Tbe defendants having been legally arrested, the evidence was admissible, and is sufficient to support the verdict of the jury.
It having been made to appear to this court that thе defendant Tip Odell had abandoned his appeal and had surrendered to the sheriff, served his term, and been released from jail on the 3d day of February, 1931, the appeal is dismissed as to him, and affirmed as to the defendant Elmer Moore.