People v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of mandate, seeking to compel the respondents to accept jurisdiction in certain cases where the defendants have been arraigned in the Superior Court, sitting as a Juvenile Court, and have entered a plea of “not guilty” to a charge of violation of section 21 of the Juvenile Court Law.

The petition alleges that a criminal complaint was filed in the Justice’s Court of Ontario township, in the county of San Bernardino, this being a township wherein the population is less than thirty thousand, by which complaint a certain named defendant was charged with the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor, as provided by section 21 of the Juvenile Court Law (Gen. Laws of Cal., 1923, at p. 1568), which offense was alleged to have been committed within the boundaries of that township. It is then alleged that after a preliminary hearing, the defendant was held to answer upon said charge by a commitment issued by said Justice’s Court; that thereafter an information was filed in the Superior Court of said county, sitting as a Juvenile Court, charging said defendant with said offense; that thereafter said defendant appeared before said…