Charles Leo Leman, the real party in interest, has appealed from a judgment of the superior court which granted the petition of the People for a peremptory writ of mandate directing the Justice Court of the Oroville Judicial District, in and for the County of Butte, to set aside its ruling suppressing the results of a blood alcohol test of blood taken from Leman and ordering the justice court to admit the results of the test into evidence upon any trial of the issues raised in the complaint charging Leman with driving a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

A complaint was filed in the justice court charging Leman with reckless driving, failing to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle, and driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Thereafter counsel for Leman made a motion to suppress the results of the test of blood taken from Leman which he asserted was obtained as the result of an illegal search and seizure, and also made a motion “to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the alleged drunken driving complaint is based on evidence illegally obtained; in that the blood alcohol test was taken against the will of the defendant, under threat of duress and force. ...” After a hearing the justice court ordered the exddence suppressed, but denied the motion to dismiss the charge of driving a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

Thereafter the People sought a xvrit of mandate to compel the justice court to admit the result of the blood test into evidence at the trial.

The superior court issued its peremptory writ directing the justice court to set aside its order suppressing the results of the blood test and ordering that the test and its results be admitted into evidence upon any trial of the issues raised in the complaint and this appeal followed.

A pretrial motion to suppress evidence by a party is a proceeding whereby the issue of the legality of evidence may be determined in a proceeding before trial. (Note, 44 Cal.L. Rev. 164.) It is generally held that if an indictment has been returned and a motion to suppress evidence is then filed such a proceeding is not an independent proceeding and an appeal does not lie from an order suppressing or refusing to suppress evidence. (Cogen v. United States, 278 U.S. 221 [ 49 S.Ct. 118 , 73 L.Ed. 275 ]; Carroll v. United States, 354 U.S. 394 [ 77 S.Ct. 1332 , 1 L.Ed.2d 1442 ]; Rodgers v. United States, 158 F.Supp. 670 .) A defendant in a criminal action can of course renew his objection at the trial and seek reviexv of the order denying a motion to suppress evidence xvhen he appeals from the final judgment. The People may appeal only if a statute gives them the right. The Legislature has strictly limited the right of the People to appeal. (Pen. Code, § 1466.)

Appellant relies strongly on People v. Superior Court, 137 Cal.App.2d 194 [ 289 P.2d 813 ], In that case the trial court sustained the objection to the admission into evidence of marijuana on the ground that such evidence was not admissible under the rule of People v. Cahan, 44 Cal.2d 434 [ 282 P.2d 905 , 50 A.L.R.2d 513 ], because, so the trial court ruled, the search at the police station during which the narcotic was discovered was not incidental to the lawful arrest on the drunk and assault charges. The trial court, however, agreed to the request of the prosecutor to continue the trial so that a petition for a writ of mandate could be filed in the District Court of Appeal to test the correctness of the ruling and seeking to compel the trial court by mandate to admit the evidence. In denying the xvrit the court said at page 195:

Respondent seeks to distinguish the above-cited case on the ground that in the instant case there was a pretrial motion to suppress while in the cited ease the motion to suppress was made during the course of the trial. We do not believe that the fact that there was a pretrial motion in the instant case changes the legal situation because, as herein-before pointed out, a pretrial motion to suppress evidence is not an independent proceeding but is considered incidental to the criminal case. (United States v. Rosenwasser, 145 F.2d 1015 [ 156 A.L.R. 1200 ].) If part of the criminal ease, the time of the ruling is immaterial. Further, to recognize such a distinction would only penalize those defendants who made a pretrial motion to suppress evidence. We do not believe that such a distinction should be made.

Respondent argues also that we should approve the granting of the writ of mandamus because the justice court in granting the motion to suppress evidence of the blood test has in effect dismissed the action. However, as hereinbefore stated, the court denied the motion to dismiss the drunk-driving charge. If the procedural limitations placed upon the right of the People to seek review of rulings on the admission of evidence are too stringent, the proper place to seek relief is the Legislature.

Respondent argues quite forcefully that the taking of the blood test in the instant ease was one incidental to a lawful arrest and was therefore not illegal. We express no opinion on this subject because the point is not before us. We are simply passing on the propriety of using mandamus to test the ruling. We do not deem it proper to pass on the admissibility question. To do so would be doing indirectly what we have no power to do directly.

The judgment is reversed.

Van Dyke, P. J., and Peek, J., concurred.

A petition for a rehearing was denied November 7,1960, and respondent’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied December 7, 1960.