Bassetti

People v. Bassetti

Good Law
1922 Cal. App. LEXIS 281·58 Cal. App. 390·208 P. 696
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 30, 1922Crim. No. 622.California1,474 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Burnett, J.

Defendant was convicted tinder an indictment charging that on the thirteenth day of July, 1921, in the county of Mendocino, “within the boundaries of the first supervisor district of said county and outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town,” he did “willfully and unlawfully keep and conduct a place where alcoholic liquor was sold, served and distributed, and did then and there willfully and unlawfully beep and conduct a place where alcoholic liquor was kept for the purpose of sale and distribution; said supervisor district being then and there no-license territory under the laws of the state of California.” The indictment contained a second count charging that on said date he sold alcoholic liquor to two certain individuals, naming them, but he was acquitted on this particular charge.

In his opening brief appellant attacks the sufficiency of the indictment, but we understand that he has abandoned that position. At any rate, the charge upon which he was convicted was sufficiently set forth within the requirement of the statute known as the “Wyllie Law.” (Stats. 1911, p. 599; People v. Williams, 29 Cal. App. 552 [ 156 Pac. 882 ]; People v. Mueller, 168 Cal. 526…

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