Matter of Rogers
California Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a Writ of Habeas Corpus directed to the Chief of Police of the Gffy and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
The writ was denied at the time the petition was presented, for the following reasons: The prisoner was arrested upon a charge of violating the provisions of a new section of the Penal Code, numbered 330a, enacted April 21, 1911 (Stats. 1911, p. 951), making it a misdemeanor to keep or maintain any mechanical device upon the result of the operation of which money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded. The complaint upon which he was arrested seems to have been very carefully drawn with a view to showing that in this instance the method of operating the particular machine in…
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