Ex parte Kohler

The petitioner was convicted in the police court of the city and county of San Francisco of the crime of misdemeanor, committed in violation of the provisions of 'an act of the legislature of the state of California, entitled “An act to prohibit the sophistication and adulteration of wine, and to prevent fraud in the manufacture and sale thereof,” approved March 7, 1887. (Stats. 1887, p. 46.)

The salient provisions of the act are as follows:—

Section 1 defines pure wine for the purposes of the act. Section 2 prohibits the using of deleterious substitute^ in the fermentation, preservation, and…