Court Opinion

ID: 9560149
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:44:12.734409+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:13.228437
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Stukes, Justice
(dissenting).
I regret that I cannot concur in the opinion of Mr. Justice Legge. I think the issue of appellant’s guilt was properly submitted to the jury.
The “assorted whiskies” were in an upstairs room over his cafe-pool room (also referred to in the testimony as a beer tavern) and the evidence indicated that he had at least equal access to the key to the room. He owned the building. It is quite understandable that the jury discredited the testimony of his employee-roomer. It is difficult to believe that any reasonable jury would have accepted it as the truth.
Oxner, J., concurs.