State v. Arrigoni

Citations

• 119 Wash. 358
• 205 P. 7
• 27 A.L.R. 310
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 748

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors (30, 50) — Offenses—Illegal Possession— Evidence — Sufficiency. In a prosecution for the unlawful possession of whiskey, whether the presumption from ownership of the premises was sufficiently rebutted, or whether the quantity was so negligible as to be available for unlawful use, are for the jury, where the liquor was found in defendant’s house in a sink near a glass, it filled an ordinary pint milk bottle.' to a height of about two inches, and the defendant’s wife tried to keep it from the officers, though defendant denied any knowledge of it.</p> <p>Same (30, 51) — Illegal Possession — Instructions. It is proper to instruct that, if a husband knowingly permits his wife to keep intoxicating liquors in the house for an illegal purpose, he is a participator in, and guilty of, the unlawful possession.</p>