Legal Opinion
Silva v. Municipal Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 19, 1974No. Civ. 34674PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ELKINGTON, J.
— This proceeding in mandate concerns California’s Penal Code section 647, subdivision (a), which provides that every person: “Who solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute *736conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view,” is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Edward Silva, the petitioner, stands charged in the respondent Municipal Court for the Oakland-Piedmont Judicial District, with soliciting another to engage in such lewd and dissolute conduct. We issued an alternative writ of mandate directing the court to sustain…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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3Cited by18 opinions
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