Case Name: The State of Washington, Respondent, v. E. N. Allen, Appellant
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1922-11-08
Citations: 122 Wash. 199
Docket Number: No. 17586
Parties: The State of Washington, Respondent, v. E. N. Allen, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 122
Pages: 199–200

Head Matter:
[No. 17586.
Department One.
November 8, 1922.]
The State of Washington, Respondent, v. E. N. Allen, Appellant.
Intoxicating Liquors (-6)&emdash;Prohibition &emdash; Eighteenth Amendment. Prosecution under state laws for violation of the liquor laws are not displaced by the eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, and the Volstead act passed pursuant thereto.
Same (50)&emdash;Offenses&emdash;Jointist&emdash;Evidence&emdash;Sufficiency. A conviction of being a jointist is sustained by proof that the lessee and manager of a hotel personally sold intoxicating liquor to different persons in the building, notwithstanding his principal business was to furnish hotel accommodations.
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurston county, Wilson, J., entered December 17, 1922, upon a trial and conviction of being a jointist.
Affirmed.
Wesley Lloyd, for appellant.
Roscoe R. Fullerton and Nat U. Rrown, for respondent.
Reported in 210 Pac. 359.

Opinion:
Mitchell, J.
-The appellant was convicted, upon a trial by jury, of the crime of being a jointist, and has appealed.
The argument on behalf of the appellant that the prohibition law of this state has been displaced by the eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States and the Volstead act passed pursuant thereto has been answered in the negative by a number of our decisions from that of State v. Turner, 115 Wash. 170, 196 Pac. 638, down to State v. McFee, 121 Wash. 425, 209 Pac. 683.
The other assignments of error call in question the sufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict and judgment. It was shown by an abundance of proof that the appellant personally sold quantities of intoxicating liquor to different persons in the building described in the information as the Carlton Hotel, situated at 310 Columbia street, Olympia, Washington, while the hotel was being conducted and maintained by him as lessee and manager. The proof presented a olear case for the jury to decide. The fact that the principal purpose for running the place was to furnish hotel accommodations was of itself no defense to the charge. State v. Greenwald, 116 Wash. 463, 199 Pac. 730.
Affirmed.
Parker, C. J., Holcomb, Mackintosh, and Bridges, JJ., concur.