In Re Rice

The petitioner, Rice, was arrested under a warrant from the recorder’s court of the city of Long Beach, in the county of Los Angeles, state of California, which warrant was based upon a complaint charging that the defendant did commit a misdemeanor, in that he “did then and there willfully and unlawfully commence and proceed with the erection or construction of a building within the limits of the city of Long Beach without first procuring a permit so to do, thereby violating ordinance 181, section 3, of the said city of Long Beach; all of which is contrary to the forms of the ordinances…