Golden & Co. v. Justice's Court

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the above named respondents from “taking any further proceedings pending in the case of the People of the State of California, Plaintiff, v. Golden & Company, a corporation, in said justice’s court, and from hearing, determining, passing upon, trying or deciding any proceeding in said case,” etc. etc.

This proceeding arises by reason of the filing of a complaint, on the twenty-first day of June, 1913, in the respondent court, by the district attorney of Yolo County, charging the petitioner with the violation of section 15 -of the Local Option Law, popularly known as the “W filie law,” and passed by the legislature of 1911. (Stats. 1911, p. 599, et seq.) The" specific charge against the petitioner is that it solicited the sale of certain alcoholic liquors within the limits of the city of Woodland, a municipal corporation, it being admitted by the petitioner, for the purposes of this case, that, prior to the time at which the petitioner is alleged to have committed the offense with which it is charged in the complaint objected to here, at an election, held in said city, in pursuance of the provisions of said local option law,…