State v. Bliven

There was sufficient evidence to warrant the jury in finding that at the time stated in the information, officers, lawfully proceeding under a search warrant, found in defendant’s private dwelling a quart bottle of distilled liquor containing seventy per cent, ethyl alcohol; and it was admitted that defendant had no permit to handle or traffic in intoxicating liquor. Defendant’s possession of that liquor constituted a violation of sec. 165.35 (4), Stats. 1927, if it was privately manufactured.

There is no evidence in the record that the liquor was of illicit manufacture unless it be the…