Defendant was convicted of the offense known as “contributing to the delinquency of a minor”, a misdemeanor defined in section 702 of the Welfare Code, under the chapter heading of “Juvenile Court Law”. He was tried in the Superior Court of San Joaquin County, and now seeks release by habeas corpus, contending that said court was without jurisdiction. Article VI, section 5 of the Constitution provides:

Article XI, section 8y2 provides as follows:

In 1927 it was amended to read as follows (Stats. 1927, p. 2151) :

Petitioner urges that the said charter provision gives the Police Court of Stockton exclusive jurisdiction over the crime charged, it being a misdemeanor. The district attorney contends that since the legislature had granted jurisdiction over this offense (popularly known and designated as a “high misdemeanor”) to the superior court, the charter provision was ineffectual to confer jurisdiction upon the police court. This latter contention must be upheld. At the time the said charter was granted the Juvenile Court Law provided, and it now provides that “The Superior Court in every county ... in this State shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this Act”.—(Sec. 16 of act, Stats. 1915, sec. 571 of Welf. and Inst. Code.) During all of said times the said act provided, in the section which defines the misdemeanor here involved, that “The Juvenile Court shall have original jurisdiction over all misdemeanors defined in this section.” (See. 702, Welf. and Inst. Code, sec. 21 of Juvenile Court Act, Stats. 1915, p." 1246). The said section of the Juvenile Court Law under which defendant was prosecuted has been in practically the same form since 1909. In 1937 the Juvenile Court Law was codified and reenacted as a part of the Welfare and Institutions Code. Section 2 of said code provides:

We therefore cannot agree with petitioner when he says that the Welfare Code of 193.7 was an original enactment, and that consequently it was competent for the legislature, in granting the charter prior thereto, to vest jurisdiction in the police court over all misdemeanors. As we have seen, the law in question was in force and effect when the charter was granted. To accede to the argument vf petitioner would require us to hold that the charter repealed, by implication, a portion of the general law relating to juvenile courts. In this connection the case of Ex parte Dolan, 128 Cal. 460 [ 60 Pac. 1094 ], is a direct negation of the position taken by petitioner. There, the court held that a provision in a freeholders’ charter attempting to confer exclusive jurisdiction upon a police court, could not divest a court deriving its jurisdiction from the legislature, of its first jurisdiction. Dolan made an application for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was confined in the county jail of Santa Barbara County under a commitment for disturbing the peace issued out of the Justices’ Court of the Second Township of Santa Barbara County. The boundaries of said township were coterminous with the corporate limits of the city of Santa Barbara. Dolan contended that the Police Court of the City of Santa Barbara had exclusive jurisdiction over the offense for which he had been convicted, and for that reason the judgment rendered in the justice’s court was absolutely void. The city of Santa Barbara was operating under a Freeholders’ Charter. By article VI of this charter, there was created a Judicial Department in that city vesting in the police court thereof exclusive jurisdiction of certain offenses, among others, breaches of the peace and all other misdemeanors punishable by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The offense of which petitioner Dolan was convicted was one coming within the aforesaid classification, and made triable before the police court of said municipality. It was also a case coming within the jurisdiction of the jus tices ’ court under authority found in the general laws of the state. In the Dolan ease, supra, the court discussed section 8% of article XI of the Constitution as it existed at that time, and insofar as the present case is concerned, the language of section 8% of article XI of the Constitution is identical. Since the Dolan case, there have been certain amendments to section 8% of article XI, but said amendments do not affect the present controversy. At the time of the Dolan case, said section provided that it was competent for a Freeholders’ Charter to provide for the constitution, regulation, government and jurisdiction of police courts. The present wording of section 8% on this particular point is the same. The court pointed out in the Dolan ease that the Police Court of the City of Santa Barbara was created by its charter, and jurisdiction given to it as heretofore stated, under the authority of said section 8%. The court stated as follows on page 462:

Here, the legislature, prior to the enactment of the charter, made a direct grant of jurisdiction over this crime to the superior court, and we hold that the enactment of the charter provision relating to the jurisdiction of the police court did not repeal the general law.

We do not deem it necessary to discuss the case of People v. Wong, 61 Cal. App. 497 [ 215 Pac. 409 ], upon which petitioner strongly relies, other than to state that the case has no application here, for the reason that it deals solely with the question whether or not a city charter may provide that its courts have exclusive jurisdiction over misdemeanors committed within the limits of the municipality. That is not the question here. We are concerned only with the question whether or not this charter provision had the effect of repealing an existing general law which had already vested jurisdiction of the particular offense in the superior court.

Petitioner relies upon the ease of Robert v. Police Court, 148 Cal. 131 [ 82 Pac. 838 ]. We see nothing in that case which alters the rule laid down in Ex parte Dolan, supra. In that ease it was held that a provision in the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco which purported to grant to the police court concurrent jurisdiction with the superior court of all other misdemeanors (that is, high misdemeanors), was invalid, upon the ground that the superior court must possess original jurisdiction in the absence of any transfer to an inferior court, and loses its jurisdiction entirely by such transfer. In other words, the constitutional provision referred to above does not provide for concurrent jurisdiction in respect to such misdemeanors. It is true the court, in referring to the legislature said:

But it must be remembered that in Ex parte Dolan, supra, the legislature, by general law had, prior to the granting of the city charter, granted jurisdiction over ordinary misdemeanors, to the justice’s court. In the Robert case, supra, the jurisdiction to try the high misdemeanor there charged had never been expressly granted to the superior court. The question of an attempt to repeal a general law by implication, through the granting of a municipal charter was therefore not considered. The concurring opinion of Chief Justice Beatty in the Robert case is in line with our holding here:

We do not find anything in Matter of Dodge, 135 Cal. 512 [ 67 Pac. 973 ], which is in conflict with the pronouncement in the Dolan case.

We are of the opinion that the charter provision relied upon by petitioner is invalid to the extent that it purports to confer jurisdiction over this offense upon the Police Court of the City of Stockton, and hold that the superior court was the proper forum to hear and determine the cause.

The writ is discharged.

Thompson, J., and Pullen, P. J., concurred.