In Re Cohn

Petitioner was charged in a complaint in the Justice’s Court of San Antonio Township, Los Angeles County, as follows: “That on the 1st day of June, 1939, in the City of Bell, in the above named Township, -in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, the crime of violation of Section 373a, Penal Code (crime of) maintaining a Public Nuisance a misdemeanor, was committed by Leon Cohn, who, at the time and place last aforesaid, did wilfully and unlawfully maintain a nuisance which was injurious to the health of the people living in the neighborhood and obstructing the free use of property,…