McAllister v. Superior Court

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent court from enforcing the alternative provisions of the sentence imposed upon petitioner by the respondent court in a criminal action.

The minutes of said court show that petitioner was convicted of the crime of conspiracy to violate section 17 of an act known as the General Cemetery Act (Stats. 1931, p. 2443), and that after he was duly arraigned for sentence on March 2, 1936, the trial court ordered that petitioner “pay a fine of $900.00, said fine to be paid at not less than $25.00 per month beginning on June 1st, 1936, and…