People v. Masters

WHITE, P. J., Concurring and Dissenting.

I think that the result the court’s opinion publishes today is tenable; certainly the consequences of appellant’s violence warrants the law’s maximum punishment. However, the court’s ratiocination is untenable, I think, in light of the record under review revealing the superior court’s silence as to a matter on which its *1131jurisdiction may be said to precariously hinge. “ ‘A court may have jurisdiction of the cause of action and of the parties, but it may lack the authority or power to act in the case except in a particular way. Under such circumstances,…