Nolan

It being suspected that defendant, Nolan,was “blind-pigging,” one Baroni was employed by the sheriff of Mendocino County to purchase liquor from defendant, and succeeded in doing so. Defendant was thereupon charged, by indictment of the grand jury of the county of Mendocino, with the offense of keeping and conducting, in no-license territory, a place where alcoholic liquor was sold and distributed, and keeping and conducting, in no-license territory, a place where alcoholic liquors were kept for the purpose of sale and distribution.. He was thereupon duly tried and convicted of the offense charged in the indictment. Defendant moved for a new trial, which motion was denied, and he was thereupon sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars, and to six months’ imprisonment in the county jail. Defendant prosecutes this appeal from the order and the judgment.

The several points urged by appellant for reversal are as follows: (1) That the court erred in refusing to grant defendant’s motion for a change of venue; (2) That the court committed prejudicial error in that it made certain statements which improperly affected the verdict of the jury; (3) That it was error to admit evidence…