Matter of Application of Ahart
California Supreme Court
APPLICATION originally made to the Supreme Court for a Writ of Habeas Corpus directed against the City Marshal of the City of Covina. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Petitioner was arrested for violating the terms of the liquor ordinance of the town of Covina. He sued for and obtained this writ of habeas corpus under his contention that the ordinance is void, and that consequently the criminal complaint against him founded upon that ordinance is likewise void.
The ordinance forbids the sale or dispensing of alcoholic liquors saving in designated places and under prescribed restrictions, and then in section 5 declares that “Every person who . . . transports within the city of Covina, spirituous, or vinous, or malt, or mixed, liquors or intoxicating drinks,…
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