H. D. Wallace & Associates, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

Petitioner H. D. Wallace and Associates, Inc., is the corporate holder of an on-sale general liquor license issued for a bar in Sacramento County. Petitioner William H. Hughes, Jr., is its president and only shareholder. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board affirmed a decision of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control revoking the corporate license but staying the revocation for six months on condition that Mr. Hughes divest himself of ownership of the business and not be employed there in any managerial capacity. This court issued a writ of review and stay order.

At the time the corporation was licensed in 1963, the department was aware that between 1958 and 1961 Mr. Hughes had been convicted four or five times of being drunk in public, twice of misdemeanor drunk driving and twice of *591 being drunk in or about an automobile. In 1964 and 1965 after the license had issued, Mr. Hughes was convicted once oi misdemeanor drunk driving and twice of driving with a sus pended license. Because of this expanded record of offenses, the department conditionally revoked the corporate license in January 1966, but that revocation was permanently stayed when Mr. Hughes…