In Re Portnoy

— Petitioners were convicted in the Justice’s Court of Riverside County under two counts of a complaint charging them with violating the provisions of Ordinance No. 248 of that county. The judgments of conviction were affirmed on appeal by the superior court. A writ of certiorari, which was sought to annul the judgments, of conviction, was denied by this court upon the ground that no excess of jurisdiction was present. (Portnoy v. Superior Court, 20 Cal.2d 375 [125 P.2d 487].) This proceeding in habeas corpus is based upon the contention that the sections of the ordinance under which…