Pyper v. Jennings
California Court of Appeal
APPLICATION for a Writ of Prohibition to restrain a justice of the peace from enforcing a judgment of contempt. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFinlayson, P. J.
This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain respondent, justice of the peace for the township of San Diego, from enforcing a judgment of contempt rendered - by him in an action for criminal libel then pending in his court and entitled “The People of the State of California, Plaintiff, v. The San Diego Sun Publishing Company, a Corporation, and R. A. Lacy, Defendants.”
The criminal action, in the course of which the contempt proceedings arose, is based upon a defamatory article alleged to have been published of and concerning Louis J. Wilde, mayor of the city of San Diego. The…
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