Hoffmann v. Superior Court of City & County of S. F.
Hoffmann v. Superior Court of City & County of S. F.
Opinion of the Court
The petitioner was convicted of a misdemeanor in the police judge’s court of the city and county of San Francisco, and appealed to the superior court. The record shows that on March 10th the judgment appealed from was affirmed by the superior court, and that on March 15th, for good cause shown, the remittitur which had been issued in the case was recalled,
The petitioner bases her application for a writ of review upon an affidavit in which she claims that the superior court granted a new trial on the seventh day of March, and that on the following day her counsel demanded a jury trial, which was refused; that on the tenth day of March, at the opening of court, her counsel appeared and again demanded a jury; that the court again refused the demand for a jury, and against the objection and exception of counsel, immediately vacated and annulled the order granting a new trial made on March 7th, and affirmed the judgment of the police court, without allowing petitioner an opportunity to produce her witnesses. She claims, therefore, that all orders subsequent to the order alleged to have been made on the 7th of March are void, and that she is entitled to a new trial,—-a jury trial.
It is sufficient to say that the record sent to us and certified by the clerk shows an entirely different state of facts from that set forth in the affidavits. We cannot receive the affidavits to contradict, add to, or amend the record, for the latter imports absolute verity. If the minutes do not correctly show the proceedings had in the court below, an application should be made in that
The application for a writ of review is denied.
Thornton, J., Works, J., Sharpstein, J., McFarland, J., and Beatty, 0. J., concurred.
Rehearing denied.
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- AMELIA HOFFMANN v. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
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- Writ of Review—Affidavits Impeaching Record. —Upon an application to this court for a writ of review, the record sought to be reviewed imports absolute verity, and affidavits cannot be received to contradict, add to, or amend that record in this court. If the minutes of the court below do not correctly show the proceedings had, an application should be made in that court to correct the same.