People v. Williams

Defendant was accused of the crime of selling and furnishing alcoholic liquor within no-license territory in the county of Tehama, on or about the twenty-second day of July, 1915, to wit, “at and on an island in the Sacramento River, near the boundary line of the city of Red Bluff, in said Tehama County, near the boundary line between supervisorial district No. 1 and supervisorial district No. 3 and within one or both, all of the territory within both said supervisorial districts of said supervisorial districts being then and there no-license territory,” etc.

Defendant moved the court that plaintiff be required “to state in which supervisor district the alleged crime took place.” The motion was denied. A demurrer to the information on various grounds was overruled and defendant pleaded not guilty. Upon the trial the jury found defendant guilty as charged in the information and the court accordingly entered judgment that defendant be imprisoned in the county jail for the period of 75 days. Defendant appeals from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The evidence is uncontradicted that defendant sold alcoholic liquor as charged, the only question…