State v. Harkness

— The defendants appeal from conviction on a charge of being jointists on or about October 5, 1923.

At the trial of the action, there was evidence that appellants maintained room 24, in a lodging house in the city of Bremerton; that sales of liquor were made to a deputy sheriff; that sailors resorted to the room in question, and that, on August 18, which was seven weeks prior to the time alleged in the information, a police officer saw two sailors go to the room, and that five minutes later they reappeared and he searched them at the door of the room and found certain liquor in their…