Arfsten v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
PETITION for a Writ of Prohibition to the Superior Court of Mendocino County. J. Q. White, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The application is to prohibit the superior court from proceeding to try petitioner on an information in which it is charged that on a certain date he did “willfully and unlawfully sell intoxicating liquors, to wit, whiskey, to one Dow Chilson.” The prosecution is sought to be upheld by reason of two certain ordinances passed by the board of supervisors of the county of Mendocino. The first is known as ordinance No. 161 and, as far as necessary to quote, is as follows: “It shall be and hereby is made unlawful for any person to sell any alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, malt or other intoxicating…
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