Robert v. Police Court of S.F.
California Supreme Court
PETITION for Writ of Prohibition against the Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco. A. J. Fritz, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLorigan, J.
This is a proceeding in prohibition, to restrain the respondents from proceeding to try the petitioner in the police court of the city and county of San Francisco before a jury upon a charge of criminal libel, the question involved being whether, under the freeholders’ charter of said city and county, the police court thereof has jurisdiction to try (not to hold a preliminary examination in) a prosecution for such an offense.
It is insisted by the petitioner that the police court has been invested with no such jurisdiction, and that a trial for the offense with which he is charged can only be…
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