In re Guerrero

The petitioner complains that he is imprisoned under a judgment given against him by the *90City Court of Los Angeles, for having violated an ordinance of the city by “ carrying on, within the corporate limits of the city, in his own name, and for his own profit and benefit, the business of a place where spirituous and vinous, malt and mixed, liquors were sold in quantities less than one gallon, without first procuring a license so to do”; and he asks to be discharged from imprisonment, on the ground that the ordinance is void and the judgment of conviction invalid.

The ordinance is entitled “An…