People v. Kudla

Defendant was convicted of keeping a place where intoxicating liquors were sold, etc., in violation of law, and brings the case here for review upon exceptions before sentence. At the trial it was claimed by the prosecution that sales of liquor were made by defendant through a window opening into an outside covered stairway. This was denied by defendant and the claim made that the window had been painted some time before and the sash had not thereafter been raised or disturbed. With such issue before the jury, court closed for the day and in the evening a woman juror, accompanied by her…