In Re Irvin

Complaints were filed against the petitioner in the municipal court of the city of Los Angeles, charging him with the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor and the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, after prior convictions of similar offenses, all in violation of the provisions of the Wright Act (Stats. 1921, p. 79). Upon arraignment, the defendant pleaded guilty to the offense of the sale of intoxicating liquor, as charged in the complaint, and admitted the prior conviction. He also pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor. Thereafter the court pronounced judgment and sentence that, for the crime of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, the petitioner pay a fine of five hundred dollars, or, in default thereof, be imprisoned in the city jail of the city of Los Angeles in the proportion of one day’s imprisonment for each and every dollar of said fine, until the fine was wholly satisfied, not exceeding fifty days; and that, for the crime of the sale of intoxicating liquor after prior conviction of a similar offense, the petitioner pay a fine in the sum of two hundred dollars and be imprisoned in the Los Angeles city jail for the term of eighteen…