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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 551
    STACHOWICZ v. STATE
    No. 19861.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. June 3, 1926.
    661. INTOXICATING LIQUORS — May a bartender of a soft drink establishment be convicted for illegal possession when intoxicating liquor is found on the second floor of his establishment, but there is no evidence to show that the bartender owned the liquor?
    Attorneys — Kelroy & Dembowskf, for Pltf.; E. C. Stanton and F. A. Irvine, Cleveland, for Deft.
   The State brought this action originally in the Cuyahoga Common Pleas against Stanley Stachowicz which resulted in his conviction for illegal possession.

It appears that Stachowicz was a bartender at a soft drink establishment and that intoxicating liquor was found on the second floor. At the trial there was no evidence to show that the bartender Stachowicz, was the owner of the liquor.

Stachowicz in the Supreme Court contends:

1. That the court erred in permitting an inference that the liquor belonged to Stachowicz.