Paton v. Superior Court

This is a petition to review an order of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Contra Costa, forfeiting certain money deposited by petitioner as bail to secure the release of four defendants charged with, and subsequently convicted of, criminal offenses.

After trial and following verdicts by a jury, the judgments in three of the cases directed that the respective defendants be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for the term of thirty days and by the payment of a fine in each case in the sum of $250; that in the event of the failure to pay the fine the…