Jarvis

The defendants were charged in an information filed by the district attorney of Fresno County with the commission of a felony, to wit, the violation of section 16 of the Deciduous Fruit Dealers Act (Stats. 1929, p. 665). The information contains two counts. In the first count- it is alleged that the defendants wilfully and unlawfully engaged in the business of dealer in deciduous fruits as defined in the act without having procured a license so to do. In the second count- it is alleged that the defendants represented themselves to be cash buyers as defined in the act, “by then and there and under said representation purchasing for resale certain deciduous fruit, to-wit: grapes, of A. D. Orr and by failing within forty-eight hours after demand had been made upon them by said growers to pay the full purchase price of said deciduous fruits in lawful money of the United States, or by certified check or by cashier’s check or in any other manner at all”. Upon arraignment the defendants pleaded that they were not guilty of the offenses charged against them and were tried before a jury, which returned separate verdicts finding each defendant guilty of the two offenses charged in the…