State v. Williams

Defendant was indicted under Section 2224—4, Or. L., which provides:

“ Except as hereinafter provided in this amendatory act, it shall be unlawful for any person to receive, import, possess, transport, deliver, manufacture, sell, give away, or barter any intoxicating liquor within this state. * * ”

Does the mere taking of a drink of intoxicating liqnor, at the invitation of a friend, constitute unlawful possession of the same within the meaning of the statute? This precise question was decided adversely to the contention of the state in State v. Jones, 114 Wash. 144 (194 Pac. 585), wherein the…