Bird v. Justice Court

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Siskiyou County denying appellant’s petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent justice court from further proceedings on a criminal complaint previously filed in that court against the appellant.

The complaint accused appellant, his father and his brother of willfully and unlawfully possessing deer meat on August 16, 1958, during the closed season. The defendants entered a plea of not guilty. Before the date set for the trial, ap pellant’s father, Roy Bird, Sr., sought a writ of prohibition from the superior court to…