§ 335. Duties of district attorneys, sheriffs, and others. Every district attorney, sheriff, constable, or police officer must inform against and diligently prosecute persons whom they have reasonable cause to believe offenders against the provisions of this chapter, and every such officer refusing or neglecting to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. § 336. Permitting minor to play in saloon. Every owner, lessee, or keeper of any house used in whole, or in part, as a saloon or drinking-place, who knowingly permits any person under twenty-one years of age to play at any game of chance therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. Stats. 1873-4, 461. § 337. Pretending to give authority to conduct games. Every state, county, city, city and county, town, or township officer, or other person who shall ask for, receive, or collect any money, or other valuable consideration, cither for his own or the public use, for and with the understanding that he will aid, exempt, or otherwise assist any person from arrest or conviction for a violation of section three hundred and thirty of the Penal Code; or who shall issue, deliver, or cause to be given or delivered to any person or persons any license, permit, or other privilege, giving or pretending to give any authority or right to any person or persons to carry on, conduct, open, or cause to be opened, any game or games which are forbidden or prohibited by section three hundred and thirty of said code; and any of such officer or officers who shall vote for the passage of any ordinance or by-law, giving, granting, or pretending to give or grant to any person or persons any authority or privilege to open, carry on, conduct, or cause to be opened, carried on, or conducted, any game or games prohibited by said section three hundred and thirty of the Penal Code, is guilty of a felony. En. Stats. 1885, 113. CHAPTER XI. PAWNBROKERS. § 338. § 339. § 340. 341. § 342. § 343. § 344. Pawnbroking without license. Failing to keep a register. Charging unlawful rate of interest. Selling before time of redemption has expired, or without notice. Refusing to disclose particulars of sale. Refusing to allow an officer with search-warrant to inspect register of pledged articles. Junk dealers, application of code sections to. § 338. Pawnbroking without license. Every person who carries on the business of a pawnbroker, by receiving goods in pledge for loans at any rate of interest above the rate of ten per cent per annum, except by authority of a license, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Pledge from minor under sixteen: See post, sec. 501. Pledge: See Civ. Code, secs. 2986-3011. § 339. Failing to keep a register. Every person who carries on the business of a pawnbroker, who fails at the time of the transaction to enter in a register kept by him for that purpose, in the English language, the date, duration, amount, and rate of interest of every loan made by him, or an accurate description of the property pledged, or the name and residence of the pledgor, or to deliver to the pledgor a written copy of such entry, or to keep an account in writing of all sales made by him, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. This section applies to junk, dealers: See post, sec. 344. § 340. Charging unlawful rate of interest. Every pawnbroker who charges or receives interest at the rate of more than two per cent per month, or who, by charging commissions, discount, storage, or other charge, or by compounding, increases or attempts to increase such interest, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1881, 75. Cal.Rep.Cit. 67, 360. § 341. Selling before time of redemption has expired, or without notice. Every pawnbroker who sells any article pledged to him and unredeemed, until it has remained in his possession six months after the last day fixed by contract for redemption, or who makes any sale without publishing in a newspaper printed in the city, town, or county, at least five days before such sale, a notice containing a list of the articles to be sold and specifying the time and place of sale, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. § 342. Refusing to disclose particulars of sale. Every pawnbroker who willfully refuses to disclose to the pledgor or his agent the name of the purchaser and the price received by him for any article received by him in pledge and subsequently sold, or who, after deducting from the proceeds of any sale the amount of the loan and interest due thereon, and four per cent on the loan for expenses of sale, refuses, on demand, to pay the balance to the pledgor or his agent, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. This section applies to junk dealers: See post, sec. 344. § 343. Refusing to allow an officer with search-warrant to inspect register of pledged articles. Every pawnbroker who fails, refuses, or neglects to produce for inspection his register, or to exhibit all articles received by him in pledge, or his account of sales, to any officer holding a warrant authorizing him to search for personal property, or the order of a committing magistrate directing such officer to inspect such register, or examine such articles or account of sales, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. This section applies to junk dealers: See post, sec. 344. § 344. Junk dealers, application of code sections to. Sections three hundred and thirty-nine, and three hundred and forty-two, and three hundred and forty-three of the Penal Code are applicable to the persons carrying on the business of junk dealers, their clerks, employees, or servants, and to persons acting as brokers or commission agents for such persons, and apply to their transactions of purchase and sale as well as to those of pledge or mortgage. En. Stats. 1901, 75. CHAPTER XII. OTHER INJURIES TO PERSONS. Willfully poisoning food, medicine, or water. Mismanagement of steam-boilers. § 347. § 348. § 349. § 350. § 351. § 352. § 353. § 354. Counterfeiting trade-marks. Selling goods which bear counterfeit trade-marks. Refilling casks, etc., bearing trade-mark. §3542. Selling or refilling casks, etc., containing trade-mark. § 354. Destroying or defacing trade-mark. § 355. § 356. § 357. Defacing marks upon wrecked property and destroying bills Defacing marks upon logs, lumber, or wood. § 3572. Changing or defacing brands on domestic animals a mis demeanor. Frauds in affairs of special partnership. Contracting or solemnizing forbidden marriages. Making false return or record of marriage. § 358. § 359. § 360. § 361. Cruel treatment of lunatics, etc. § 362. Refusing to issue or obey writ of habeas corpus. § 363. § 364. § 365. § 366. § 367. Reconfining persons discharged on habeas corpus. Concealing persons entitled to benefit of habeas corpus. Selling debased quicksilver. § 346. Acts of intoxicated physicians. Every physician who, in a state of intoxication, does any act as such physician to another person by which the life of such other person in endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor. February 14, 1872. § 347. En. Willfully poisoning food, medicine, or water. Every person who willfully mingles any poison with any food, drink, or medicine, with intent that the same shall be taken by any human being, to his injury, and every person who willfully poisons any spring, well, or reservoir of water, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not less than one nor more than ten years. En. February 14, 1872. Act to regulate sale of poisons: See post, Appendix, title Poisons. § 348. Mismanagement of steamboats. Every captain or other person having charge of any steamboat used for the conveyance of passengers, or of the boilers and engines thereof, who from ignorance or gross neglect, or for the purpose of excelling any other boat in speed, creates, or allows to be created, such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler, or any apparatus or machinery connected therewith, by which bursting or breaking human life is endangered, is guilty of a felony. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 431. § 349. Mismanagement of steam-boilers. Every engineer or other person having charge of any steam-boiler, steamengine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, used in any manufactory, railway, or other mechanical works, who willfully, or from ignorance, or gross neglect, creates, or allows to be created such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler, or engine, or apparatus, or cause any other accident whereby human life is endangered, is guilty of a felony. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 431. As to personal injuries, see Civ. Code, secs. 43, 1708, 1714, 1969-1971, 2096, 2100. $ 350. Counterfeiting trade-marks. Every person who willfully reproduces, copies, imitates, forges, or counterfeits, or procures to be reproduced, copied, imitated, forged, or counterfeited, any trade-mark usually affixed by any person to his goods, which has been duly recorded in the |