Ex parte Soto
California Supreme Court
Application to the Supreme Court for a discharge from imprisonment on a writ of habeas corpus. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeatty, C. J.
The petitioner was convicted in the recorder’s court of the city of Pomona, upon a charge of violating a city ordinance, and sentenced to pay a fine of $150, and in default of such payment to be imprisoned in the city jail in the proportion of one day’s imprisonment for each two dollars of the unpaid portion of said fine.
The punishment prescribed by the city ordinance under which the petitioner was convicted is a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment. And it is claimed that a judgment imposing a fine only…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ex parte BernertCalifornia Supreme Court · 1881
3Cited by17 opinions
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