State v. Tworuk

Taylor, C.

An ordinance of the city of Minneapolis prohibits having intoxicating liquor in possession for sale within that city. Defendant was convicted in the municipal court of violating that ordinance, and appeals from an order denying a new trial.

Defendant had a small grocery store in the front part of his building and lived in the back part. About 7:30 o’clock in the evening of December 18, 1926, a police officer accompanied by Budolph Hiltunen and Fred Soine went to the vicinity of this building. The officer gave Hiltunen a marked dollar bill. Hiltunen and Soine went to the door opening…