Show Rum Unaffected By Community Property Laws Directed Verdict of Judge Moffatt Frees Wife on on Appealed Liquor Possession Possession Possession Pos Pos- session Charge Community property laws which give a wife a vested interest in her husbands husband's possessions apparently do donot donot donot not apply to the ownership of liquor police squad members learned Friday Particularly are arc they not applicable able the rum sleuths learned further whisky is seized in the famIly family family fam fam- ily automobile with the wife alone in inthe inthe the car Through a directed verdict in District District District Dis Dis- Judge David W. W Moffat's court a Jury acquitted Mrs Ralph Smith 26 who appealed from her convIction conviction conviction tion In police pollee court on charges of transportation and possession of liquor City Judge C. C F. F Dalby fined Mrs Smith April 24 24 despite her as assertion assertion assertion as- as that the seized whisky belonged belonged be longed to her husband and that she was unaware of Its presence in the machine until police pollee arrested her bier April 3 in front of Canyon Road Judge Dalby said he was convinced Mrs Smith was taking the fall faU for tor her spouse In the hopes of escaping with a len lenient ent sentence J. J H. H Bailey Jr her attorney appealed appealed appealed ap ap- ap- ap pealed and the directed verdict of acquittal followed As a result the city Is ts out and a gallon of whisky and are brushing up on the law |