Ex parte Williams

Petitioner was convicted in the justice’s court of Mariposa county of a misdemeanor arising under section 537 of the Penal Code; he was fined, with the alternative of imprisonment, and failing to pay the fine went to jail. He now seeks Ms release on Imbeas corpus, assigning (1) that the complaint charged no offense under the statute, and (2) that the ■statute is unconstitutional.

1. As to the last point, the validity of the section was sustained in Ex parte Ruffin, 119 Cal. 487, and we do not regard the further objections now urged by petitioner as seriously challenging the constitutionality…