Legal Opinion

Henley v. Superior Court

California Supreme Court

Decided February 13, 1912No. S.F. No. 6102PublishedCited by 7 opinions

APPLICATION for a Writ of Prohibition directed to the Superior Court of Sacramento County. J. W. Hughes, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

THE COURT.

By the act of March 21, 1911, (Stats. 1911, p. 396), a new section—numbered 2185c—was added to the Political Code, providing that “Whenever it appears by affidavit to the satisfaction of a magistrate of a county or city and county that any person is so far addicted to the intemperate use of narcotics or stimulants as to have lost the power of self-control or is subject to dipsomania or inebrity he must issue and deliver to some peace officer a warrant directing that such person be arrested and taken before a judge of the superior court for a hearing ánd examination on such charge.…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. In Re LiggettCalifornia Supreme Court · 1921
  2. In Re CrowleyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1928
  3. In Re WatsonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1923
  4. Moore v. Superior CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1913
  5. In Re TierneyIdaho Supreme Court · 1931

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