Ellena

People v. Ellena

Good Law
1922 Cal. App. LEXIS 549·56 Cal. App. 428·205 P. 701
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaFebruary 14, 1922Crim. No. 830.California1,090 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Shaw, J.

Upon an information charging Mm therewith, defendant was convicted of the violation of an ordinance of San Bernardino County which made it unlawful for any person within said county, outside of municipal corporations, to sell, offer for sale, deliver, or give to another intoxicating liquor of any kind or in any quantity whatsoever, subject to certain exceptions not here involved. The ordinance defined the term “intoxicating liquor,” as.used therein, to include any and all spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, without regard to alcoholic content; and further provides that any person violating any of the provisions of the ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $600, or by imprisonment in the county jail of San Bernardino County for not more than seven months, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment.

Upon trial defendant was convicted, as charged in the information, of the sale and delivery of wine, contrary to the provisions of the ordinance, and thereupon it was adjudged “that the said John Ellena be punished by payment of a fine of $600 and, in default thereof, by imprisonment in the county jail…

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