Appellant was prosecuted in the city court of Indianapolis on an affidavit in six counts by which he was charged with the following offenses in violation of the Prohibition Law: (1) Selling, bartering, exchanging, giving away, furnishing and disposing of intoxicating liquor; (2) manufacturing, transporting and possessing intoxicating liquor, and possessing same with intent to sell; (3) possessing a still; (4) selling at retail, for beverage purposes, a preparation containing alcohol; (5) maintaining and assisting in maintaining a common nuisance; (6) receiving intoxicating liquor and possessing intoxicating liquor received from a carrier. He was found guilty and appealed to the criminal court of Marion county where he was tried by the court, without a jury, and convicted. A motion for a new trial was filed and overruled. An appeal from the judgment rendered was taken to this court.
It is assigned as error that the court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial. Said motion contains the following reasons: “(1) That the finding of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence; (2) that the finding of the court is contrary to law;- (3) that the finding of the court is contrary to the law and the evidence.”
There is no evidence as to appellant’s guilt under counts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the affidavit; so the conviction must have been based on count 5 of same, in which he was charged with maintaining and assisting in maintaining a common nuisance.
From the evidence, it appears as follows: That appellant was arrested by police officers at premisés known as 621 East Allegheny street, city of Indianapolis, on *116 January 5, 1924, about nine o’clock at night. That the said premises belonged to or were’ rented by the appellant.' That when the officers went there with a search Warrant for intoxicating liquor and equipment for its manufacture, the appellant threw a gallon jug containing “white mule whisky,” through a window into the snow. That four or five ounces of said liquor were saved by the officers. That on the inside of the house, the officers found a five gallon jug containing about a gallon of “white mule whisky.” Appellant denied that he was in possession of the place and that he owned the liquor, and was supported by. another person who claimed that he had rented the premises of appellant and that he had bought and was the owner of the whisky. This witness admitted that he was under indictment for burglary and grand larceny.
One of the main questions in the instant case is whether the place where the arrest was made was maintained by the appellant or another person. The court was justified by the evidence in deciding that proposition against the appellant. In determining the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a finding of conviction in a criminal prosecution, the court of appeal will look only to the evidence most favorable to the decision, and, if there is any legally admitted evidence to sustain the essential elements of the charge, the finding must stand.
Lamar
v.
State
(1921),
The evidence and the inferences therefrom prove the necessary elements of the offense of maintaining a common nuisance. The third reason for a new trial, that the finding of the court is contrary to the law and the evidence, presents no question and is not a statutory ground. We hold that the finding of the court is sustained by sufficient evidence and that -same is not contrary to law. There was no error-in overruling the motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.