People v. Pierce

Defendants were convicted in the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles of the crime of violating subdivision 2 of section 337a of the Penal Code. Said subdivision of said section of the code, reads as follows: 11 Every person, who, whether for gain, hire, reward, or gratuitously, or otherwise, keeps or occupies, for any period of time whatsoever, any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, float, vessel, place, stand or enclosure, of any kind or any part thereof with a book or books, paper or papers, apparatus, device or paraphernalia, for the purpose of recording or registering…