State v. Chester

On a criminal complaint for a second offence of possessing intoxicating liquor to be sold for beverage purposes contrary to the provisions of our prohibition enforcement act, Gen. Laws, 1923, Chap. 127, defendant was found guilty by a jury. He brings to this ‘court his exceptions to a refusal of the trial court to suppress certain evidence and direct a verdict for him, and to give certain charges requested. With these alleged errors of omission he couples claimed errors of commission in the charge as given.

The facts are singularly free from dispute. Police officers of the city of Providence…