Page 610, lines 14 and 15 from bottom, for Chehalis county, CASES DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON [No. 13423. En Banc. July 5, 1916.] THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. JOHN C. EDen, Appellant.1 STATUTES CON INTOXICATING LIQUORS-UNLAWFUL POSSESSION STRUCTION. Rem. 1915 Code, § 6262-22, of the initiative prohibition law, making it unlawful for any person to have in his possession more than the prescribed quantity of intoxicating liquors, applies only to liquor unlawfully held or obtained after the taking effect of the act, and not to an excess quantity acquired for personal use prior to the taking effect of the act; in view of the general purpose of the act to prohibit the manufacture and sale within the state, and the provisions expressly authorizing possession for personal use and the use of guests at one's residence, and in view of Id., § 6262-23 which merely makes the possession of more than the prescribed quantity prima facie evidence that the liquor was held for purposes of unlawful sale or disposition, without prescribing any penalty for such possession (FULLERTON, J., dissenting). STATUTES-CONSTRUCTION. A statute capable of two constructions, one of which makes a given act criminal and the other innocent, will be given the construction which favors innocence. Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald, J., entered March 3, 1916, upon a trial and conviction of the crime of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquors, upon overruling a demurrer to the information. Reversed. 'Reported in 158 Pac. 967; 159 Pac. 700. |