Mandel v. Municipal Court

superior court which denied his petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain respondent municipal court and the People, as real party in interest, from proceeding in a pending criminal action in which he is charged with five counts of vagrancy in violation of section 653g of the Penal Code.1 He contends that section 653g is unconstitutional because of overbreadth and vagueness, and that respondent court erred in overruling his demurrer because the facts stated in the complaint “du not constitute a public offense” (Pen. Code, § 1004, subd. 4) and reveal “matter which, if true, would…