Ex Parte Fedderwitz

The petitioner was convicted before Robert Edgar, claiming to be justice of the peace of the town of Berkeley, of violating an ordinance of that municipality. On appeal to the superior court the judgment of the justice’s court was affirmed, and in pursuance thereof petitioner is held in custody of the sheriff of Alameda county. He claims that his imprisonment was unlawful: First, because there is no justice’s court of the town of Berkeley; second, because the ordinance defining the offense of which he was convicted is void; and, third, because the complaint upon which he was prosecuted does…