Scribner

William and Alice Scribner and Lottie Powell seek review of their convictions under counts of an information charging sale and possession, respectively, of intoxicating liquor. They were acquitted under a count charging maintenance of a nuisance.

The contention that there was no evidence to justify a conviction is without merit. It was in evidence that a witness went to the lodging house in Seattle where Scribner and his wife lived, and there were shown into what the witness called a “serving room,” where they met two girls, and purchased liquor which was served from a bottle brought into the room by Lottie Powell, one of the defendants; that while they were drinking defendant Alice Scribner came into the room and sat down, but declined to drink, saying that she had not been well for several days, and added, “The girls will take care of you.” Mrs. Scribner told Onq of the witnesses that she was the landlady. Upon the arrest of the three women, Mrs. Scribner stated she was the proprietress of the place, and that the othqr women were working for her. Defendant Scribner, husband of defendant Alice Scribner, was arrested upstairs on the third floor of the lodging house in the living…