In Re San Chung

Petitioner is held in custody by virtue of a commitment issued out of the justice court of the city of Sacramento based upon a trial and conviction for the violation of section 3 of Ordinance No. 824 of said city, providing that “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons to establish, maintain, operate or carry on a public laundry or wash-house within the corporate limits of the city of Sacramento in any building, or any portion thereof, or in any annex or outhouse thereto, that shall be occupied or used either directly or indirectly as a public hall, store, restaurant, lodging-house, or saloon, or that is frequented or occupied by many persons, or that is occupied as a stopping place by transient guests, or that is frequented by persons likely to spread infectious, contagious or loathsome diseases, or that is occupied or used or frequented directly or indirectly for any immoral or unlawful purpose.”

The particular portion of said section of the ordinance violated by the petitioner is shown by the allegation of the complaint that: ‘ ‘ The defendant did then and there willfully and unlawfully operate and carry on a public laundry in that…