In re Sic

A complaint was filed in the Police. Court of the city of Stockton, charging Sam Lee and petitioner Sic with the crime of assembling for the purpose of smoking, as follows, to wit, the said Sam Lee and Sic (at a time and place specified) were willfully and unlawfully in that certain room, in that certain building on the southeast corner of El Dorado and Washington streets, in said city, for the purpose of smoking opium, contrary to the provisions of a certain ordinance, etc.

The ordinance was entitled “ Ordinance No. 192. To prohibit and prevent the smoking of opium, and the inhaling of fumes…