State v. Dukich

The defendant was found guilty of being a jointist and appeals from a judgment of sentence.

His first claim of error is that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict. The state’s case rested almost entirely on the testimony of three detectives or investigators, who were employed by the county to procure evidence of the violation of the prohibition law. The jury was entitled to believe from their testimony that, at the time charged in the information, the appellant was the proprietor of, and personally conducted, a place in the city of Spokane having the outward appearance of being…