Damiani v. Albert

From a judgment denying his application for a writ of mandate to compel respondents to reinstate him to a position he had formerly held as deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County, petitioner * appeals.

Facts •. Petitioner, a deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County, ■was charged with filing a report he knew to be false stating that his superior officer, Sergeant Mallette, was intoxicated when serving as a uniformed officer at a junior high school dance on October 15, 1954. It was also charged that he violated rules of the sheriff’s office requiring official communications to be sent through the 1…