People v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of mandate, seeking to compel the respondents to accept jurisdiction in certain cases where the defendants have been arraigned in the Superior Court, sitting as a Juvenile Court, and have entered a plea of “not guilty” to a charge of violation of section 21 of the Juvenile Court Law.

The petition alleges that a criminal complaint was filed in the Justice’s Court of Ontario township, in the county of San Bernardino, this being a township wherein the population is less than thirty thousand, by which complaint a certain named defendant was charged with the crime…