In Re Culver
California Supreme Court
PROCEEDINGS on Habeas Corpus to test the validity of a conviction of a misdemeanor in the Justice’s Court of the City of Berkeley. Writ discharged and petitioner remanded. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLennon, J.
In the justice’s court of the city of Berkeley, county of Alameda, petitioner, Laura Culver, was convicted on a complaint purporting to charge her with the commission of a misdemeanor. She was fined, with the alternative of imprisonment, and, accordingly, upon refusing to pay the fine, was taken into custody and imprisoned by the sheriff of Alameda County. Petitioner subsequently applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus and was released on bail pending a determination of this proceeding.
In his return to the writ the sheriff of Alameda County, the respondent herein, raised several…
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