Wittman v. Police Court

GRAY, C.

This is a certiorari proceeding in which the trial court gave the plaintiff judgment annulling an order of defendant which directed the sheriff of the said city and county to summon forty jurors for the trial of the plaintiff on a charge of misdemeanor then regularly pending before the defendant police court. The defendant appeals from the judgment.

The writ of certiorañ, otherwise denominated the writ of review, is an extraordinary remedy, and lies only “when an inferior tribunal, board, or officer, exercising judicial functions, has exceeded the jurisdiction of such tribunal, board,…