Case ID: wash_126/html/0055-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pemberton, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 17915.
    Department Two.
    August 6, 1923.]
    The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Julius Mariani, Appellant.
      
    
    Cbiminai, Law (2500 — Intoxicating Liquors (50) — Jointist— Evidence — Sufficiency. The weight and credibility of the testimony of paid investigators or “stool-pigeons” employed to obtain a ronviction of being a jointist is a question for the jury.
    Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered March 18, 1922, upon a trial and conviction of being a jointist.
    Affirmed.
    
      George M. Thompson and Frank S. Carroll, for appellant.
    
      J. W. Selden, T. F. Ray, and J. A. Sorley, for respondent.
    
      
       Reported in 217 Pac. 4.
    
   Pemberton, J.

— The appellant was convicted by a jury of the crime of being a jointist. The testimony shows that three paid investigators purchased liquor for themselves and others, at various times, at the boarding and rooming house of appellant. It is the contention of appellant that the testimony of these paid investigators, commonly known as stool-pigeons, being contradicted by appellant and his witnesses, is not sufficient to sustain the verdict.

The weight of this evidence and the credibility of these witnesses were questions for the jury to determine. State v. Kichinko, 122 Wash. 251, 210 Pac. 364; State v. Hessel, 112 Wash. 53, 191 Pac. 637.

The judgment is affirmed.

Main, C. J., Fullerton, Parker, and Tolman, JJ., concur.