Ex parte Simpson
Ex parte Simpson
Opinion of the Court
The question here presented, is whether the Police Judge’s Court of the city and county of San Francisco, has jurisdiction to render a judgment on a conviction for a misdemeanor, that the defendant pay a fine of one thousand dollars, and in default of payment thereof, that he be im
The act of February 13th, 1872, amendatory of and supplemental to the act of 1864, to prescribe the jurisdiction of the Police Judge’s Court of the city and county of San Francisco, after specially enumerating certain offenses, of which jurisdiction is conferred upon that Court, provides that “throughout said city and county” the Court or Judge shall have “the same powers and jurisdiction in other criminal actions and proceedings as are now or may hereafter be conferred by law upon Justices of the Peace or Justices’Courts.” (Stats. 1871-2, p. 84.) The 117th section of the Code of Civil Procedure confers upon Justices’ Courts jurisdiction of “ all misdemeanors punishable by fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.” The Police Judge’s Court of the city and county of San Francisco, therefore, had jurisdiction of the offense of which the prisoner was found guilty, if the act of 1871-2, above mentioned, is in force.
The solution of the question depends upon whether that act was repealed by the Political Code. Counsel for the prisoner rely mainly upon Sec. 18, and Chap. 4, Title 3, Part 4 (Secs. 4,426-4,432), of the Political Code. The construction of Secs. 18 and 19 is not necessary to the decision of the question; but it may be remarked that those sections, as they now stand in the Political Code, were passed April 1st, 1872, and that they may have a very material bearing on Sections 4,478 and 4,479 of that code.
Title 3, Part 4, above mentioned, is intended as a system or plan under which cities may be organized and governed. That is the sole purpose of that Title, and it is not declared to be applicable to any existing city or city and county. It
The judgment and warrant of commitment are valid and sufficient (ex parte Murray, 43 Cal. 455.)
The case is not in a condition for us to determine whether the prisoner, upon the payment of the fine, is entitled to be discharged from imprisonment.
Ordered that the prisoner be remanded.
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- Police Court Idem.—The Act of February 13th, 1872, in relation to said Court, is not repealed by the Political Code., Political Code.—Sections eighteen and nineteen of the Political Code having been passed April 1st, 1872, may have a material bearing on Sections 4,478 and 4,479 of that Code. Judgment and Commitment for. Misdemeanor.—Ex parte Murray, 43 Cal. 455, approved, as to a judgment and warrant of commitment of the Police Judge’s Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Title 3, Part IV ov Political Code.—Title 3, Part IV of the Political Code does not apply to any municipal corporations existing at the time it went into-effect.