State v. Christensen

— The evidence shows, in substanee, that the sheriff and assistants had a warrant to search defendant’s premises. Defendant told them that he had no liquor, and to go ahead and search. Defendant was asked to open a safe in his blacksmith shop, which he did. Defendant took out and handed to the officers a. half-pint bottle of intoxicating liquor, two thirds full. Defendant’s evidence- is to the effect that his son had had the earache; that the physician recommended that defendant get some alcohol with which to treat it; that defendant, without any prescription, did get from a druggist the…