Taylor v. Hughes

Application for writ of certiorari to review a judgment of a Justice’s Court, and adjudging the defendant guilty of a violation of Section 637, Penal Code. The petition was as follows: “Your petitioner would respectfully show to this Honorable Court that on or about the sixteenth day of May, 1882, a complaint was filed and a warrant issued out of the Justice’s Court of the Township of San Rafael, Marin County, State of California, whereof W. S. Hughes is the Justice, against S. P. Taylor. That the said complaint charged your petitioner with having committed the crime of misdemeanor. That the…