Opinion
Docket No. S.F. 12406.
February 10, 1927.
APPLICATION for a Writ of Prohibition to prevent the Superior Court of Mendocino County from committing petitioner for contempt of court. Writ denied.
Charles A. Shurtleff and W.D.L. Held for Petitioner.
THE COURT.
The application for a writ of prohibition herein is denied.
The remedy of the petitioner is to first present his defense upon the hearing of the contempt proceedings and then, if found guilty of the contempt, to apply to a higher court for a writ of certiorari or habeas corpus. ( Commercial Bank v. Superior Court, 192 Cal. 395, 397 [ 220 P. 422]; Drew v. Superior Court, 43 Cal.App. 651, 655 [ 185 P. 680].)