Coffey v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
APPLICATION for Writ of Prohibition to the Superior Court of Sacramento County. E. C. Hart, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLorigan, J.
On August 24, 1904," the grand jury of the county of Sacramento presented and filed in the superior court of that county an accusation against M. Coffey, chief of police of the city of Sacramento, the petitioner herein.
The accusation, after alleging the official character of the petitioner, that the city of Sacramento is a municipal corporation governed by a freeholders’ charter, and that petitioner at all the times mentioned therein was the duly appointed, qualified, and acting chief of police of the city of Sacramento, charges that on the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth days…
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