People v. Frankovich

The district attorney of Humboldt County filed in the superior court of said county an information accusing the defendants of the crime of maintaining a common nuisance, as said offense is defined by section 21 of the Volstead Act, as adopted by the so-called Wright Act enacted by the legislature and later approved by the people of California under the power of referendum, for the purpose of enforcing within the limits of said state the mandates of the eighteenth amendment to the federal constitution. The defendants Frankovich and White were convicted and the defendant Gutenich was acquitted…