Martinez v. Superior Court

The issue here is whether the testimony of a police officer concerning accusations made in the presence of the defendant and defendant’s conduct in relation thereto constituted proof connecting defendant with the offense charged sufficient to support the magistrate’s- order holding him to answer.

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition under Penal Code, section 999a, to restrain respondent superior court from proceeding to trial on an information filed after a preliminary hearing in which petitioner and defendant Joseph Daniel Sanchez, not a party to this proceeding, were charged with burglary,…