Patterson

The appellant was convieted under five counts of an indictment, one of which charged him with the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and the others charged him with prior convictions of similar offenses. There was evidence on the trial that two United States marshals went to a certain apartment house in the city of Seattle, and, on being informed by the landlady that the appellant lived *738 there, they requested her to show them his room; that she took them to a room and unlocked it, and the witnesses on entering it found five one-gallon bottles of intoxicating liquor, some personal effects, and a suitcase, the latter containing letters addressed to the appellant; that soon thereafter the officers arrested the appellant as he came into the house; and that, when hi was arrested, he admitted that the suitcase was his own and that bath robes and effects in the room were his. The appellant testified that the room in which the liquor and suitcase were found was not his room, that the liquor was not his, and that the room was occupied by his brother, William Patterson. William Patterson testified that the room was occupied by him, and that, although the suitcase belonged to…