State v. Alfson

The information in this case charged that defendant “did willfully, wrongfully and unlawfully keep and have for personal use and otherwise intoxicating liquor in a public place, to wit, a garage, in the city of Ethan, Davison county, S. D.”

At the- trial the evidence in 'behalf of the prosecution tended to show that Deputy State Sheriff Smith, Federal Officer Bintliff, and the sheriff of -Davison county went to defendant’s garage at Ethan armed with a search warrant; that some boys at the garage told them that defendant was absent; that just then defendant rushed through the garage to a door,…