Svoboda v. Purkitt

An application for a writ of mandate directing respondent, as judge of the superior court in and for the city and county of San Francisco, to hear and determine a motion for an order placing petitioner upon probation.

Petitioner was charged by information filed in the court mentioned with the crime of robbery, to which charge he entered a plea of guilty, and respondent thereupon made a finding determining the degree of the crime of which petitioner was guilty to be robbery of the second degree. Petitioner thereupon moved for the order mentioned, which motion respondent declined to hear or…