City of Topeka v. Kersch

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William R. Smith, J.:

Appellant was taken into custody on view of the commission of an offense by a policeman of the city of Topeka and brought before the police court without process. An oral complaint was made against him by the officer charging that on or about July 3, 1903, in a back room on the first floor of a two-story building at No. 708 Kansas avenue, defendant did unlawfully assist in keeping and maintaining a place where spirituous, malt, vinous, fermented and other intoxicating liquors were sold, bartered, and given away, and where persons…