In Re Souza

On the fifth day of October, 1923, the petitioner was bound over to the superior court of the county of Sacramento by the police judge of the city of Sacramento to answer the charge of selling liquor in violation of what is generally known and called the Wright Act (Stats. 1921, p. 79). The petitioner seeks his discharge herein on the ground that he was held to answer for such alleged offense without probable cause, basing his petition upon subdivision 7 of section 1487 of the Penal Code.

The testimony, as set out in the transcript, shows the following state of facts: During the month of July,…