In Re Simmons

A complaint was filed in the police court of Bakersfield charging petitioner with the possession of intoxicating liquor containing more than one-third of one per cent of alcohol by volume, contrary to the provisions of section 4 of Ordinance No. 165 of that city. Petitioner pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to pay a fine of $250. The judgment provides that if the fine be not' paid petitioner shall be imprisoned in the county jail of Kem County until it be satisfied, in the proportion of one day’s imprisonment for every dollar of the fine. The fine not having been paid, petitioner…