People v. Gusti

Belcher, C.

C.Section 397 of the Penal Code, as ¡amended in 1893, provides: “ Every person .... who ■sells or furnishes, or causes to be sold or furnished, intoxicating liquors to any Indian, is guilty of a felony.”

An information was filed against the defendant, which charged as follows: “The said N. Gusti, on the twentieth day of April, A. D. 1895, at and in the county of Sonoma, state of California, did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously furnish, and cause to be furnished, intoxicating liquor, to wit, wine, to an Indian, to wit, Molinda Dugan, contrary to the form, force, and effect of…