In Re Carlson

Petitioner was charged in the police court of the city and county of San Francisco with a violation of section 633aa of the Political Code (Stats. 1927, p. 1931). The complaint alleges that he acted as the agent for a life insurance company, to wit, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, without first obtaining a license to do so from the insurance commissioner of the state of California. A warrant for his arrest issued upon which he was taken into custody, and he seeks to be released on habeas corpus.

The above section was adopted at the legislative session of 1927 and took effect on August 2, 1927. It provides that “No person shall within this state act as a life, health or accident agent for any life insurance company until such person shall have first obtained a license under the provisions of this section from the commissioner authorizing him so to act.” The section further provides that the applicant for a license shall file with the commissioner a statement from the life insurance company which he seeks to represent, setting forth certain facts, and, further, that the applicant shall answer under oath such interrogatories as may be propounded by the commissioner, and that no…