Petro v. State

Mike Petro, the plaintiff in error, was arrested on February 11, 1921. The affidavit under which he was arrested charged that he did “unlawfully possess certain intoxicating liquor, to-wit, alcohol, at 2301 Pittsburgh Street.”

The defendant plead guilty in the municipal court of the city of Cleveland, and was fined $1,000 and costs.

Section 3 of the Crabbe Law (Section 6212-15, General Code), which makes the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor an offense, reads in part-as follows;

*257“No person shall, after the passage of this act, * * * possess * • * * any intoxicating liquors, except as…