State v. Thornton

The defendant Thornton has appealed to this court from a judgment of conviction, rendered against him by the superior court for Yakima county, of the offense of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, following a trial upon an information charging him with the greater offense of bootlegging.

On April 1st, peace officers of Yakima county, having credible information, as they believed, that appellant had arranged to receive a quantity of intoxicating liquor from a person who was to arrive in Yakima on a sleeping ear of a certain train, scheduled to arrive there that morning, secreted…