State ex rel. City of Yakima v. Superior Court

— Ben Geary was overtaken by the police officers of the city of Yakima while engaged in the attempted sale and delivery of ninety-six quarts of whiskey. He was arrested by the officers, who seized the whiskey. He was charged with violating a city ordinance prohibiting the possession and sale of intoxicating liquor and was convicted, from which he appealed to the superior court. Upon the call of the case for trial in the superior court, he filed a petition to have the whiskey (none of which, other than one quart, had been used in the trial in the police court) brought into court, and at the…