Ex parte Giambonini
California Supreme Court
Habeas Corpus in the Supreme Court to Thomas Cunningham, city jailer of the city of Stockton, to test the validity of the conviction of L. Giambonini in the Police Court of the city of Stockton. C. P. Rendon, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Petitioner -was convicted in the police court of the city of Stockton of the crime of selling intoxicating liquors to a minor under the age of eighteen years. He was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars, and in default of payment to be imprisoned for one hundred days in the city jail. C. P. Rendon, who acted as judge of the police court, was at all times a justice of tLv peace of the city of Stockton.
Petitioner contends that the judgment against him is void because the police court of the city of Stockton has no legal existence. Against this it is insisted that Rendon, as justice of…
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