Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-14 | Page 9 | Liquor Action Penalty Given

LIQUOR ACTION PENAL PENALTY TV GIVEN DIVEN Ke s Found In Machine But Owner Denies Knowledge II City Judge John A Hendricks today sentenced sentence Eugento Eugenio Orueta Spaniard aged agell 35 Iii Ely Nev to pay a a fine fino ot of 2 9 9 or to serve six months In the city jail fall Ho lie had been found guilty ot of o a charge chargo ot of having liquor In his possession At- At Attorney Attorney At Attorney torney E E Pratt Platt defended Orueta Orue- Orue Orueta ta Orue-ta ta Orueta was as arrested on the early morning of ot last December 19 at the LaUranda Cottage Collage hotel Twenty-sixth Twenty street Two kegs of liquor were reported In his au- au automobile automobile au automobile parked at the rear ot of the hotel Oi J was as a gallon five five keg and the other a 1 a 10 gallon 10 keg both full of ot liquor Sergeant L L Li W V Pack and De- De Detectives De Detectives George Theobald and Dewey F th the tha arresting officers testified In court this morning The Tho defense held that Orueta was as rooming at the hotel for tor forthe the tho night having left loft his bis automo automo- automobile automobile bile to the ceu rear r of o 0 the tho establish establish- establishment establishment establishment ment Orueta told the court on the tho witness stand that th he knew nothing of ot the liquor found In his hiscar hiscar hiscar car It was as not there ther he said when he left the machine at mid mid- midnight midnight mid midnight night Two papers ordering 10 five lve- gallon five gallon kegs from a Salt Lake Ike cooperage firm and some corn cornmeal cornmeal cornmeal meal wheat and sugar from a Eureka house were ere presented by bytho bythe bythe the tho prosecution aj as evIdence They were not allowed oa on motion of at Attorney Pratt Attorney Pr pleaded for tor leni- leni leniency leniency leni leniency ency at tho the conclusion of ot the trial Nothing had been presented to show that Orueta had sold any ot of the liquor and he was not a habitual wrongdoer It II was con con- contended contended con contended tended This case to me to be beof beo ot of such a II that I felt we could arrive at a II stipulation as to what the tile defendant should be fined but I understand that your honor does not nt wish to agree on any stipulation He argued there was a proba proba- probability probability probability that the liquor had been put In Orueta's machine without Orueta Orueta's knowledge Assistant City Attorney Samuel Blackham prose prosecuted the case