People v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of mandate for the purpose of directing the superior court in and for the county of Los Angeles and Sidney N. Reeve, as a judge thereof, to hear and determine certain appeals from the justice’s court of Los Angeles township.

The essential facts surrounding the matter appear to be that in two several actions pending before the justice’s court of Los Angeles township, in which certain defendants were charged with a violation of the provisions of section 626f of the Penal Code in that they unlawfully had deer and deer meat in their possession, a justice of the peace (in all respects regularly, but in the absence of the district attorney or any deputy district attorney representing the people) had sustained demurrers in each of said cases and, in addition thereto, had ordered each of the actions dismissed. Later, on the same day, a deputy district attorney appeared before the justice of the peace in his chambers and gave oral notice of appeal from each of the said judgments of dismissal, and still later, and on the same day, filed in the justice’s court a written notice of appeal in each of said ' actions; following which the defendants therein…