In Re Selowsky

The petitioner has applied for a writ of hateas corpus to secure her release from imprisonment following a judgment of conviction of contempt of court, rendered by the superior court of Napa County, for the violation of the terms of a certain decree previously rendered by and entered in said court.

It appears from the petition that on the twentieth day of March, 1917, the district attorney of Napa County filed a petition in the superior court of said county alleging that the petitioner here was using certain premises owned by her and known as the “Stone Bridge Saloon,” being situated in Napa County, “for the purpose of lewdness, assignation and prostitution,” and praying for a judgment of the court that said premises be declared a nuisance and that the same be perpetually enjoined; that, subsequently (on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1917), a trial was had upon the said petition and the answer thereto of the defendant (petitioner here) and that, on the nineteenth day of November, 1917, the court, upon findings that said premises were owned, in the possession of, maintained and conducted by the petitioner as a place of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution, entered its decree…