Court Opinion

ID: 5606773
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 03:46:02.571079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:58.432604
License: Public Domain

Pottle, J.
The accused was convicted of keeping intoxicating liquors in his place of business. The evidence shows that he received a package of whisky by express and delivered it to a hackman, with instruction to take it to his residence and to deliver it to his wife. The hackman carried the whisky to the home of the accused, and, finding no one there, took it across the street and deposited it in a restaurant, which was being conducted by the accused. -The accused was absent and did not know that the hackman had not left the whisky at his residence but had deposited it in the restaurant. About ten minutes after the wmsKy was left in the restaurant, its presence was discovered by a policeman, and the accused was arrested while on his way to the restaurant from some point in the city. There was no evidence that the accused knew until after his arrest that the whisky had been placed in the restaurant. Held, that the conviction was unauthorized and should have been set aside on motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Bussell, J., dissents.