State v. Gleen

— The defendant was charged with being a bootlegger and, upon trial, was convicted.

There was testimony to show that, on a certain night, the appellant stopped his automobile in the alley in the rear of his home, in the city of Tacoma. He was in the act of unloading and taking into his house more than one hundred pints of Canadian beer, when he was arrested.

On cross-examination he was asked by the prosecuting attorney if he ever had any liquor in his possession or had any in his home when he lived at another place in Tacoma. The court overruled objections to these questions and required the…