State v. Schuman

The opinion of the.court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This was a prosecution under the prohibitory liquor law. Defendant was charged and convicted for unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor. He was sentenced as a persistent violator.

Defendant’s first complaint concerns the exclusion of the evidence of one of his witnesses. In order to understand the contention, it is necessary to state a few preliminary facts. The information charged defendant with the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor on July 29, 1939. The theory of the state was that defendant and one Bernard Fahlsing were…