Moore v. Municipal Court of Salinas Judicial Dist.

This is an appeal from a denial by the Superior Court of Monterey County of a writ of prohibition, directed to the Municipal Court of the Salinas Judicial Dis trict, which would have ordered the municipal court to desist from proceeding in a criminal action on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the involved ordinance.

A criminal complaint charged appellant with violation of section 1(a) of the Salinas Rural Fire District Ordinance Number 1 in that “defendant, within the boundaries of the Salinas Rural Fire District, did willfully burn a fire out of doors for the purpose of burning papers…