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Matter of the Application of Woods

Supreme Court of California,In Bank
Oct 20, 1911
161 Cal. 238 (Cal. 1911)

Opinion

Crim. No. 1710.

October 20, 1911.

The Petitioner was held in custody by the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, in pursuance of a Commitment issued out of the justice's court of Los Angeles township on the fourteenth day of October, 1911. He claimed to be entitled to be discharged from such custody on the ground that by a constitutional amendment adopted on the tenth day of October, 1911, the office of justice of the peace was abolished. The further facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

R.J. Adcock, for Petitioner.


The application for a writ of habeas corpus is denied. The recent amendment of sections 1, 11, and 15 of article VI of the constitution does not abolish the justices courts and other inferior courts which had been previously established by acts of the legislature. They remain in existence with the jurisdiction vested in them by the acts creating them, until the legislature shall, in the exercise of the power given by the section as amended, otherwise provide.


Summaries of

Matter of the Application of Woods

Supreme Court of California,In Bank
Oct 20, 1911
161 Cal. 238 (Cal. 1911)
Case details for

Matter of the Application of Woods

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Application of J.A. WOODS for a Writ of Habeas Corpus

Court:Supreme Court of California,In Bank

Date published: Oct 20, 1911

Citations

161 Cal. 238 (Cal. 1911)
118 P. 792

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