People v. Costello

THOMPSON (IRA F.), J.

The defendant was charged in an information containing two counts with the offenses of “selling intoxicating liquor’' and with “maintaining a common nuisance, towit: a certain building in the town of Victorville, in the County of San Bernardino, State of California, in which intoxicating liquors were wrongfully kept and unlawfully sold.” The jury found the defendant not guilty of count one charging him with the sale of intoxicating liquors in violation of the Wright Act (Stats. 1921, p. 79), but did return a verdict of guilty of the offense of maintaining a nuisance. The…