People v. Van Wong

Section 42.03 of Los Angeles Ordinance Number 77,000, the Municipal Code, was held invalid by the trial judge, who sustained a demurrer to the complaint against the defendant and dismissed it. The complaint charged the defendant with sale of and offer to sell a ticket admitting one to a Los Angeles Coliseum event, conjoining in the charges all the circumstances proscribed within 250 feet of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum “upon and along a public street, sidewalk, alley, and publicly owned park and place.”(1) It is asserted that this a valid police regulation to prohibit the practice of…