Ex parte Kearny

McKinstry, J.:

The Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco is an “ inferior court ” of limited jurisdiction, whose powers are conferred, and whose duties and mode of procedure are prescribed, by statute, and to which the rule applies that the evidence of its proceedings must affirmatively show jurisdiction of the person'of the defendant, and over the subject-matter. The remark to the contrary in Ex parte Murray, 45 Cal. 455, is dictum. The only question there was, whether the judgment should have shown on its face the particular offense of which the petitioner had been found…