State v. Meany

The appellants, Jay Meany and Frank Joseph Ellison, were convicted by a jury of the crime of opening up, conducting and maintaining a place for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to terms in the penitentiary.

The place the appellants were charged with opening up, conducting and maintaining, is a suite of rooms in an apartment hous.e, in the city of Seattle. The evidence on the part of the state tended to show that a Federal prohibition agent went to the rooms in the afternoon of March 29, 1928, in the company of a person called “an under-cover man,” and, finding the…