Lambert v. Municipal Court

FOURT, J.—This

is an appeal from the order and judgment of the superior court rendered on July 7, 1959, denying plaintiff’s application for an alternative writ of prohibition.

A recital of the facts is unnecessary other than to state that on July 17, 1959, after a four-day trial Virginia Lambert, the appellant herein, was found guilty of petty theft. The trial court (municipal court) continued the ease for sentencing until November 16, 1959. On November 17, 1959, appellant was sentenced by respondent court in absentia to 15 days in the county jail on the misdemeanor charge. This judgment and…