Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Municipal Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 19, 1938No. Civ. 11645PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGrail, P. J.
This is an appeal by the defendants from an order of the superior court prohibiting them from enforcing against the petitioner section 647a of the Penal Code, which reads as follows: ‘1 Every person who annoys or molests any school child or who loiters about any school or public place at or near which school children attend, is a vagrant, and is punishable by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”
The petitioner makes two contentions: (1) The second clause of said section is so…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- United States v. KirbySupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Purity Extract & Tonic Co. v. LynchSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Otis v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
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3Cited by28 opinions
- In Re CreglerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1961
- State v. AnthonyOregon Supreme Court · 1946
- People v. PallaresAppellate Division of the Superior Court of California · 1952
- State v. StarksWisconsin Supreme Court · 1971
- Mandel v. Municipal CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1969
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