Wood v. Superior Court

Opinion

FRIEDMAN, Acting P. J.

J.— In this prohibition proceeding petitioner seeks to prevent his trial upon a charge of violating Penal Code section 4532, subdivision (a), escape from a county jail, one of four counts in the information filed by the district attorney. The writ will issue, for the undisputed evidence before the committing magistrate established no violation of the statute.

After the subtraction of language surplus to our needs, subdivision (a) of section 4532 provides: “Every prisoner arrested and booked for, charged with, or convicted of a misdemeanor, . . . who is confined in…