130 Wash. 325 | Wash. | 1924
Racldch Ikeda and M. Saito were jointly charged with the crime of the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale. They were tried together. Saito was acquitted. Ikeda was found guilty by the jury, and has appealed from a judgment and sentence upon the verdict.
The facts in the case were that the place of manufacture was a suh-hasement of a residence. The officers
Error is assigned upon an instruction as to aiding and abetting, both defendants having been informed against as principals. They were so charged correctly under § 2007, Eem. Comp.. Stat. [P. C. § 9132], and in consideration of the fact that Saito was being tried jointly with the appellant, and in further consideration of the evidence as to Saito’s connection with the transaction, the instruction was proper under the section of the code just referred to, together with § 2260, Rem. Comp. Stat. [P. C. § 8695], and the case of State v. Malsogoff, 88 Wash. 419, 153 Pac. 379.
Another assignment is that the court erroneously instructed the jury upon the subject of intent. The argument is that the law makes the manufacture of intoxicating liquor an offense and that one who engages in it violates the law irrespective of the question
The motion for a new trial was properly denied, while the complaint against the sentence imposed is not meritorious, it being the minimum prescribed by the statute.
Affirmed.