Legal Opinion
In Re Gamo
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 20, 1932No. Docket No. 2198PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRICKE, J., pro tem.
Petitioner was on March 2, 1932, tried and convicted in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County of the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (sec. 21, Juvenile Court Act), and sentenced to serve two years in the county jail, the last year of such sentence to be suspended.
The sole contention of petitioner is that the superior court had no jurisdiction of the subject matter and that the jurisdiction of the offense charged is vested exclusively in the Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles.
The state Constitution declares that “the superior court shall have…
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