Maitlen v. State

The plaintiff in error, for convenience hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of having possession of intoxicating liquor with the unlawful intent to sell the same to others, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to be imprisoned in the county jail for 15 days.

The evidence on behalf of the state, in substance, shows that on the 27th day of May, 1933, Sheriff Simpson, of Custer county, procured a search warrant to search the premises of this defendant, and Ed Phelps, a police officer, and Delmar Russell, a deputy sheriff, accompanied the sheriff to the hotel where the…