Legal Opinion
Hicks v. Bd. of Supervisors of Orange Cty.
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 22, 1977No. Civ. 15785PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MORRIS, J.
Cecil Hicks, the District Attorney for Orange County, brought this action against the Orange County Board of Supervisors for writ of mandate to compel the said board to set aside that portion of a resolution adopted June 19, 1975, which ordered the transfer of 22 investigative positions from the district attorney’s staff to the jurisdiction of the sheriff-coroner.
The determinative question presented is whether the board of supervisors of a general law county has the power to require the district attorney to exercise his investigative functions through the office of the…
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