State v. Creeden

I. The facts established by the undoubted preponderance of the evidence are these: There were shipped from Rock Island, Illinois, by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, consigned to defendant Con Creeden, at Des Moines, six packages of whiskey, in separate shipments. The packages contained about five gallons each. Two were shipped on the seventh, and one each on the ninth, fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth days of November. Each package was received at the railroad freight depot at Des Moines in two days after the date of its shipment. The charge on each package was…