In Re Hayes

Upon application of the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus was issued by the Supreme Court and made returnable before this court.

It appears that petitioner was arrested and is being detained under a warrant based upon a complaint filed in the Justice Court of Riverside Township, County of Riverside, in which he is charged in four separate counts with violations of section 11 of The California Fruit, Nut and Vegetable Standardization Act of 1931 (Stats. 1931, p. 1459). In two counts he is charged with mislabeling certain grapefruit by marking the wrappers thereof with the word “Coachella” and by stamping the word “Coachella” upon each individual grapefruit and thereafter offering the same for sale, thereby representing the same to be grapefruit that had been grown and raised in the Coachella Valley when in truth and fact said grapefruit had been grown in San Bernardino County. In the other two counts he is charged with mislabeling certain containers of grapefruit by the repeated use of containers which were labeled “Pure Gold-Coachella Valley Grape Fruit—Sweet Seedless—Grown and packed by Coachella Valley Citrus Association—Thermal, Riverside County, California,” without,…