In Re Bock

Petitioner was arrested upon a charge of violating a county ordinance passed by the supervisors of the county of Marin and known as Ordinance No. 206. He seeks his release upon habeas corpus.

The ordinance was passed on March 15, 1932, and took effect thirty days thereafter. In its entirety it reads as follows:

“Ordinance No. 2'06.

“An ordinance defining the terms ‘Substitute for Butter’, and requiring persons, firms and corporations manufacturing, buying, selling, dealing in or furnishing or having in possession for any purpose other than consumption in his own family a substitute for butter to…