Show I COURT UPHOLDS POSSESSION I OF WEE WEE DRAP City Judge Says a Little Liquor Is Lawful If Bought in Time TillIe Possession of OC liquor in small Quantities quantities quantities quan Quan- for Cor medicinal purposes Is not contrary to the tho prohibition law of ot Utah if that liquor was purchased prior to August I 1 1 1917 according to th the th interpretation of or the law bw given Iv n b by City Judge John F F. F Tobin yesterday In tho the caso case of Theodore Rosetta who was charged liquor In his pos Rosetta Hosetta was dismissed This Is II the most Important cam caso of or orIts Its kind that has come before the courts since the prohibition law wont went into effect Rosetta was arrested a short time after the state became eLmo dry Harry Barn Harper counse counsel for tho the defense said that the liquor found In Rosetta's possession was purchased d prior to the first of August and that It was as the intention of his client to put It to a medical use uso and moved Jno that tho the caso case against him be dismissed Rosetta's caso came camo up for hearing several times but tho the final decision was not nol rendered until yesterday In a similar case caso in Ogden Ogdon Judge Pratt dismissed the defendant as ho he held that It was not unlawful to possess possess possess pos pos- sess a small quantity of ot whisk whisky or other liquor If It It were bou bought ht for medIcal medical med med- ical purposes s prior to the time the time state went dr dry This decision does not affect other cases now pending where a large quantity of liquor was tas found round In the possession of the offender render Judge Tobin Tobin To To- bin said last night It rt simply means that this court does docs not think that it was tho the spirit of or the tho legislature passIng passIns passing pass- pass Ing Ins the prohibition law to Include cases of ot this ln the same samo class as those of tho the palpable oCen offenders ers Where such large largo quantities of or liquor havo have been found in a n mans man's possession that it is apparent that he lie did not Intend to use It for Cor private consumption this decision will not appl apply I Chief of ot Police Pollee J J. J Parley White said last night that the caso against Rosetta Hosetta Roset Hoset- ta would be appealed to tho the district court and from tram there to the supreme court court so that a final decision would be made regarding tho the principle In involved in- in J |