Legal Opinion

Rankin v. Superior Court of S.F.

California Supreme Court

Decided January 6, 1910No. S.F. No. 5449PublishedCited by 24 opinions

APPLICATION for a Writ of Prohibition directed to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. W. M. Conley, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

THE COURT.

The petitioner was convicted of grand larceny in the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco by a verdict returned on September 10, 1909. Judgment has not yet been pronounced on the verdict and the superior court has set the seventh day of January, 1910, as the time for passing sentence. The petitioner, claiming that by this delay the court has. lost jurisdiction to give judgment, asks for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court from pronouncing judgment, or further proceeding in the case.

Section 1191 of the Penal Code, as amended in 1909, [Stats. 1909,…

2Cited by24 opinions

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