State v. Binnard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Anders, J.

The respondents were accused, by an information filed by the prosecuting attorney of Whitman *350county, of the crime of keeping open a drinking saloon on Sunday. The charging part of the information is as follows :

“.The said Ben Binnard, Charles Schultz and Jack McVey in the county of Whitman, in the state of Washington, on the 18th day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, did wilfully and unlawfully keep open a drinking saloon; the said drinking saloon then and there being the drinking saloon known as the ‘Elite/ and the said 18th…