State v. Wilson

The defendant, Dan Casperson, is proprietor and operator of a large hotel, containing more than one hundred rooms, situated in the business district of the city of Seattle. He and certain other defendants were charged with maintaining such hotel as a joint, and he alone appeals from a judgment of conviction.

A large number of witnesses were called by the state and testified as to the general reputation of the hotel as being a place where intoxicating liquors were sold. There was direct and positive testimony on the part of two of the state’s witnesses covering the question of the defendant Dan…