McGranahan v. Police Court
California Court of Appeal
PROCEEDINGS in Prohibition and Habeas Corpus to determine the jurisdiction of the Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco over high misdemeanors. Writs denied. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtSturtevant, J.
The first case sounds in prohibition and the second is an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Both proceedings were instituted for the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of the police court of the city and county of San Francisco over misdemeanors, the punishment for which may exceed a fine of five hundred dollars or six months in the county jail, or both. In the interest of clarity of expression, we will specially refer to the facts as presented in the prohibition proceeding, and the conclusion reached will rule both eases.
[1] The petitioner, William E. Conner, was charged, in a…
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