Antilla v. Justice's Court of Big River Twp.

A proceeding in prohibition. ' Admittedly the Justice’s Court of Big River Township of Mendocino County proposes to try petitioner for a misdemeanor cognizable by the Justice’s Court, committed in Ten Mile River Township of the same county. Petitioner by this proceeding presents the question of the jurisdiction of the court in the former township over this offense. This question in turn involves a consideration of section 1425 of the Penal Code, as amended in 1929 (Stats. 1929, p. 861).

Prior to amendment said section, in so far as applicable here, read as follows: “The justices’ courts have…