City of Seattle v. Green

The defendant was charged in the police court, Seattle, King county, Washington, with illegal possession of alcoholic liquor and was found guilty. He appealed to the superior court, where the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Appealing to this court, he raises a number of objections to the proceedings in the trial court, one of which is determinative of the case.

The complaint, filed by an officer of the Washington state liquor control board, charged that,

“On or about the 29th day of April, 1956, at the City of Seattle, in King County, Washington, the said Defendant did commit a misdemeanor…