Ex parte Lloyd

This is an application for the discharge of the petitioner from imprisonment, under a judgment of conviction for battery, rendered by the police court of the city and county of San Francisco. The only ground upon which the right to his discharge is claimed by the petitioner is, that the act creating said court is unconstitutional. The act referred to was approved March 5, 1889. The first section thereof provides:— ■

"Sec. 1. There is hereby created and established in *422and for the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, a court, to be known as the ‘ Police Court of the City and…