Barbera

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a verdict of a jury finding him guilty of a misdemeanor, to wit, a violation of section 21 of the Juvenile. Court Law (Stats. 1915, p. 1225), and also from an order of the trial court denying his motion for a new trial.

The first point argued upon the appeal is that the trial court was without jurisdiction. This objection was not made at the trial and is presented for the first time upon appeal. It is based upon the following facts: The trial was had in department eleven of the superior court, state of California, in and for the city and county of San Francisco, and it is contended that this department and the judge presiding therein are not those designated by the judges of the superior court to hear cases coming under the Juvenile Court Law, in accordance with the provisions of section 16 of said law. Said section 16 provides: “The Superior Court . . . shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this Act.” As a matter of convenience in procedure, it is also provided that the judges of the superior court, in counties or cities and counties having more than one judge, shall designate, annually, one or more of their number, whose…